The rise of oxygen caused Earth's earliest ice age
Thursday, May 7, 2009 - 09:42
in Earth & Climate
Geologists may have uncovered the answer to an age-old question - an ice-age-old question, that is. It appears that Earth's earliest ice ages may have been due to the rise of oxygen in Earth's atmosphere, which consumed atmospheric greenhouse gases and chilled the earth.
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