Snowball Earth: New evidence hints at global glaciation 716.5 million years ago
Posted by ScienceDaily: Oceanography News on 6 March, 2010
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Geologists have found evidence that sea ice extended to the equator 716.5 million years ago, bringing new precision to a "snowball Earth" event long suspected to have taken place around that time. The new findings -- based on an analysis of ancient tropical rocks that are now found in remote northwestern Canada -- bolster the theory that our planet has, at times in the past, been ice-covered at all latitudes....