A ‘snowball Earth’ climate triggered by continental break-up through changes in runoff

2004/03/01 by Yannick Donnadieu, Yves Goddéris, Gilles Ramstein +3 · 4 citations
Chemistry · Earth and Planetary Sciences · Environmental Science · #Carbon dioxide #Carbon dioxide in Earth's atmosphere #Chemistry #Climate change #Climate model #Climate state #Climatology #Craton #Earth science #Effects of global warming #Geology #Geology and Paleoclimatology Research #Glacial period #Global warming #Ice age #Ice sheet #Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena #Oceanography #Paleoclimatology #Paleontology #Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils #Precambrian #Proterozoic #Rodinia #Snowball Earth #Tectonics #Weathering

paper · doi:10.1038/nature02408

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Citations

• Ridge volume dependence on seafloor generation rate and inversion using long term sealevel change
• Erosion of Deccan Traps determined by river geochemistry: impact on the global climate and the 87Sr/86Sr ratio of seawater
• A negative feedback mechanism for the long‐term stabilization of Earth's surface temperature
• On the initiation of a snowball Earth

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• Evidence from ophiolites, blueschists, and ultrahigh-pressure metamorphic terranes that the modern episode of subduction tectonics began in Neoproterozoic time
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• Rodinia [wikipedia]