Study debunks theory on end of 'Snowball Earth' ice age
Wednesday, May 25, 2011 - 13:00
in Earth & Climate
A team of scientists led by researchers from Caltech report in this week's issue of the journal Nature that the rocks on which much of a theory on how the "Snowball Earth" ice age ended was based were formed millions of years after the ice age ended, and were formed at temperatures so high there could have been no living creatures associated with them.