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How Salt May Have Helped Freeze The Entire Earth 700 Million Years AgoSalt flats stretch into the distance, white with ridges that give it texture despite being so flat

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How Salt May Have Helped Freeze The Entire Earth 700 Million Years AgoSalt flats stretch into the distance, white with ridges that give it texture despite being so flat
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How Salt May Have Helped Freeze The Entire Earth 700 Million Years Ago

clock-iconMarch 11, 2026
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The "Great Unconformity" And Earth's Missing Billion Years May Have A New ExplanationThe Grand Canyon.

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The "Great Unconformity" And Earth's Missing Billion Years May Have A New ExplanationThe Grand Canyon.
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The "Great Unconformity" And Earth's Missing Billion Years May Have A New Explanation

clock-iconFebruary 28, 2026
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700 Million Years Ago, Our Planet’s Coldest Ocean Temperatures Arrived During A Mysterious Era: Snowball EarthA banded iron formation deposited out of time, more than a billion years later than most, reveals the temperatures of the oceans at their coldest.

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700 Million Years Ago, Our Planet’s Coldest Ocean Temperatures Arrived During A Mysterious Era: Snowball EarthA banded iron formation deposited out of time, more than a billion years later than most, reveals the temperatures of the oceans at their coldest.
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700 Million Years Ago, Our Planet’s Coldest Ocean Temperatures Arrived During A Mysterious Era: Snowball Earth

clock-iconJanuary 13, 2026
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Around 720 Million Years Ago, Our Planet Turned Into A Snowball Earth – Is This Why?An artist's impression of what "Snowball Earth" might have looked like.

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Around 720 Million Years Ago, Our Planet Turned Into A Snowball Earth – Is This Why?An artist's impression of what "Snowball Earth" might have looked like.
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Around 720 Million Years Ago, Our Planet Turned Into A Snowball Earth – Is This Why?

clock-iconJuly 28, 2025
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Glaciers Pulverized Earth’s Surface 700 Million Years Ago, Setting The Stage For Complex Lifea CGI illustration of what the snowball earth might have looked like, icy surface

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Glaciers Pulverized Earth’s Surface 700 Million Years Ago, Setting The Stage For Complex Lifea CGI illustration of what the snowball earth might have looked like, icy surface
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Glaciers Pulverized Earth’s Surface 700 Million Years Ago, Setting The Stage For Complex Life

clock-iconFebruary 26, 2025
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Earth's Greatest Ice Age Really Did Bring Ice Sheets To The EquatorThe red band of rock at Arapaho Pass in Colorado dates from a time twice as old as the Rocky Mountains when global glaciers and local geothermal activity drove iron incursions into sandstone.

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Earth's Greatest Ice Age Really Did Bring Ice Sheets To The EquatorThe red band of rock at Arapaho Pass in Colorado dates from a time twice as old as the Rocky Mountains when global glaciers and local geothermal activity drove iron incursions into sandstone.
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Earth's Greatest Ice Age Really Did Bring Ice Sheets To The Equator

clock-iconNovember 12, 2024
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After Snowball Earth Came Short-lived Slushball Earth, Lithium Isotopes ProveDrone aerial image of the sharp front dividing clear ocean waters from a turbid freshwater river plume fed by the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet

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After Snowball Earth Came Short-lived Slushball Earth, Lithium Isotopes ProveDrone aerial image of the sharp front dividing clear ocean waters from a turbid freshwater river plume fed by the melting of the Greenland Ice Sheet
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After Snowball Earth Came Short-lived Slushball Earth, Lithium Isotopes Prove

clock-iconNovember 7, 2024
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Snowball Earth: Our Planet’s Greatest Ice Age Probably Didn’t Have Single CauseSnowball Earth

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Snowball Earth: Our Planet’s Greatest Ice Age Probably Didn’t Have Single CauseSnowball Earth
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Snowball Earth: Our Planet’s Greatest Ice Age Probably Didn’t Have Single Cause

clock-iconFebruary 12, 2024
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Ice Once Covered Earth Pole-To-Pole, So How Did Life Survive?earth depicted as a frozen planet

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Ice Once Covered Earth Pole-To-Pole, So How Did Life Survive?earth depicted as a frozen planet
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Ice Once Covered Earth Pole-To-Pole, So How Did Life Survive?

clock-iconOctober 9, 2023
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600-Million-Year-Old Time Capsule Of Ancient Ocean Found In The HimalayasMagnesite near Chandak hills, Kumaon holds water droplets from close to the time the Earth froze over.

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600-Million-Year-Old Time Capsule Of Ancient Ocean Found In The HimalayasMagnesite near Chandak hills, Kumaon holds water droplets from close to the time the Earth froze over.
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600-Million-Year-Old Time Capsule Of Ancient Ocean Found In The Himalayas

clock-iconAugust 2, 2023
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717 Million Years Ago, "Snowball Earth" Was Triggered By Massive Lava OutburstMassive Volcano Eruption. A large volcano erupting hot lava and gases into the atmosphere. 3D Illustration.

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717 Million Years Ago, "Snowball Earth" Was Triggered By Massive Lava OutburstMassive Volcano Eruption. A large volcano erupting hot lava and gases into the atmosphere. 3D Illustration.
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717 Million Years Ago, "Snowball Earth" Was Triggered By Massive Lava Outburst

clock-iconJuly 27, 2023
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The Great Unconformity: The Mystery Of Earth's Missing TimeThe Grand Canyon, photographed from the top.

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The Great Unconformity: The Mystery Of Earth's Missing TimeThe Grand Canyon, photographed from the top.
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The Great Unconformity: The Mystery Of Earth's Missing Time

clock-iconApril 4, 2023
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This Is The Oldest Known Impact Crater On Our Planet, New Research Revealsarticle image

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This Is The Oldest Known Impact Crater On Our Planet, New Research Revealsarticle image
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This Is The Oldest Known Impact Crater On Our Planet, New Research Reveals

clock-iconJanuary 22, 2020
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Earth Froze Over 700 Million Years Ago Because The Planet Started Crackingarticle image

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Earth Froze Over 700 Million Years Ago Because The Planet Started Crackingarticle image
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Earth Froze Over 700 Million Years Ago Because The Planet Started Cracking

clock-iconMay 8, 2018

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The Right Kind Of Volcanoes Freed Us From “Snowball Earth”article image

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The Right Kind Of Volcanoes Freed Us From “Snowball Earth”article image
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The Right Kind Of Volcanoes Freed Us From “Snowball Earth”

clock-iconNovember 27, 2017