The Snowball period is confirmed on earth.
The Snowball period is confirmed on earth.
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One of the crucial moments in the history of life on Earth, about 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe that huge sheets of ice enveloped the entire planet like a gigantic snowball, it was not an age of ice, the ice age as the last one that arrived the ice could reach up to in Europe, it reached up to London up to that area, up to that height more or less, in the United States it reached up to New York and Chicago were covered with ice, but barely It dropped a little more, that is, in the equatorial zone there were still jungles, there were still deserts and there were still warm areas where life thrived, for example, and with the drop in sea level the lands between Australia and the Asian continent were emerged. and there was a large area with a very almost Tropical climate where humans thrived and in fact there were several human species at that time, in that place.
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There is new research that was published on November 11 in the proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of geologists has found the missing link from that time, they have found an unusual sandstone rock with pebbles encapsulated within the granite that forms the Pikes Peak in Colorado United States, this specific rock is created by sedimentation, it is not that it was on the peak of a mountain, what we could imagine is that it was on a mountain and there the ice acted on that rock to create due to sedimentation, this data is important.
Terrifying time, we do not know why this snowball occurred, before the earth had a tropical climate, warmer, there would be its poles, there were cycles, we are talking about it happened 700 million years ago, calculate that 3000 million years ago life It started approximately, life was bacteria and the earth had its climate cycles but basically it was a much warmer, much more pleasant climate and suddenly for some reason there was this mega glaciation, this cooling of the planet globally, it is suspected that there was another former but the one we have the most data about is this one from about 600 - 700 million years ago.
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