Simple Stochastic Modeling of Snowball Probability Throughout Earth History
Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems, 2022 Over its multibillion‐year history, Earth has exhibited a wide range of climates. Its history ranges from snowball episodes where the surface was mostly or entirely covered by ice to periods much warmer than today, where the cryosphere was virtually ...
Mark Baum, Minmin Fu
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Amplified cooling of Snowball Earth from a salt-albedo feedback [PDF]
Climate of the PastIt is believed that the atmospheric circulation on Snowball Earth produced a net ablation zone exposing bare sea ice. Under sufficiently low temperatures, salt begins to precipitate out of sea ice, forming a lag deposit of crystals with high albedo as ...
A. Samuelsberg +2 more
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The Application of the CERIF Data Format to Snowball Metrics [PDF]
, 2014 The euroCRIS Indicators Task Group aims to develop and share best practice in the use of indicators to support research information management. One of the outputs of the group will be indicators expressed in CERIF that can re-used by CERIF- compliant ...
Joerg, Brigitte +13 more
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When the Earth goes white: the Snowball Earth attractor [PDF]
, 2022 Using an intermediate complexity climate model we investigate the so-called snowball Earth transition. For certain values (including its current value) of the solar constant, the climate system allows two different stable states: one of them is the ...
Kaszás, Bálint +2 more
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Sensitivity of Neoproterozoic snowball-Earth inceptions to continental configuration, orbital geometry, and volcanism [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2023 The Cryogenian period (720–635 million years ago) in the Neoproterozoic era featured two phases of global or near-global ice cover termed “snowball Earth”.
J. Eberhard +6 more
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Sea-ice dynamics strongly promote Snowball Earth initiation and destabilize tropical sea-ice margins [PDF]
Climate of the Past, 2012 The Snowball Earth bifurcation, or runaway ice-albedo feedback, is defined for particular boundary conditions by a critical CO<sub>2</sub> and a critical sea-ice cover (SI), both of which are essential for evaluating hypotheses related to ...
A. Voigt, D. S. Abbot
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Snowball Earth Under the Microscope [PDF]
Journal of Sedimentary Research, 2018 Abstract Micromorphology is a well-established technique adopted by Quaternary scientists which has received wide application in the study of glacial sediments and in soil science. One area where the approach is far less developed is in the analysis of ancient successions and, in particular, rocks of Cryogenian age that are purported ...
Busfield, Marie Elen +1 more
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Geosciences, 2012 Evidence based on molecular clocks, together with molecular evidence/biomarkers and putative body fossils, points to major evolutionary events prior to and during the intense Cryogenian and Ediacaran glaciations. The glaciations themselves were of global
Daniel Paul Le Heron
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Palaeoenvironmental signatures revealed from rare earth element (REE) compositions of vertebrate microremains of the Vesiku Bone Bed (Homerian, Wenlock), Saaremaa Island, Estonia [PDF]
, 2015 The Estonian Journal of Earth Sciences is an open access journal and applies the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License CC BY to all its papers (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
Alberto Pérez-Huerta +13 more
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Transient marine euxinia at the end of the terminal Cryogenian glaciation
Nature Communications, 2018 The termination of the Marinoan snowball Earth event marks one of the most drastic transitions in Earth history, but the oceanic response remains unclear.
Xianguo Lang +11 more
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