Cold And Ice, Not Heat, Episodically Gripped Tropical Regions 300 Million Years Ago
Friday, August 1, 2008 - 09:35
in Earth & Climate
Geoscientists have long presumed that, like today, the tropics remained warm throughout Earth's last major glaciation 300 million years ago. New evidence, however, indicates that cold temperatures in fact episodically gripped these equatorial latitudes at that time.