#paleoclimate — Public Fediverse posts
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Snowball Earth wasn’t fully frozen: ice-free oases sheltered early life
#Science #SnowballEarth #Cryogenian #ClimateScience #EarthHistory #EarlyLife #Geology #GarvellachIslands #Sturtian #Marinoan #Paleoclimate #Nature
https://the-14.com/snowball-earth-wasnt-fully-frozen-ice-free-oases-sheltered-early-life/ -
Earth May Have Had A Ring System 466 Million Years Ago
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https://phys.org/news/2024-09-earth-million-years.html <-- shared technical article
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https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2024.118991 <-- shared paper
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“HIGHLIGHTS:
• Earth may have had a ring during the middle Ordovician, from ca. 466 Ma.
• Breakup of an asteroid passing within Earth's Roche limit likely formed the ring.
• Among several features preserved is a near-equatorial band of impact craters.
• Shading of Earth by the ring may have triggered a global icehouse period…”
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #model #modeling #geology #structuralgeology #planetarygeology #rings #climatechange #paleoclimate #Ordovician #asteroid #rochelimit #craters #impactcrater #crater #icehouse #meteorite #platetectonics #HirnantianIcehouse -
The deadline for #EGU24 abstract submission is fast approaching! If you work in Quaternary fire and hydroclimate, consider submitting to our session!
https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU24/session/49382
#EGU24 #conference #quaternary #fire #fireEcology #Paleofire # palaeofire # palaeoclimate #paleoclimate