ShareClimatology: the Earth in the form of a snowball?
Climatologie : le globe terrestre en boule de neige ?
Author(s) : LE MEUR H.
Type of article: Article
Summary
The theory that the Earth was entirely frozen just before the Palaeozoic era (600 million years ago) is a provocative and controversial theory. The author has modelled it. According to recently obtained results, glaciation may have occurred, but a tropical ocean did not undergo glaciation.
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- Original title: Climatologie : le globe terrestre en boule de neige ?
- Record ID : 2001-1625
- Languages: French
- Subject: Environment, General information
- Source: Recherche - n. 334
- Publication date: 2000/09
- Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.
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Indexing
- Themes: General information on environment (climate change, ozone depletion…)
- Keywords: Ice; World; History; Environment; Climate
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Neoproterozoic 'snowball Earth' simulations wit...
- Author(s) : HYDE W. T., CROWLEY T. J., BAUM S. K., et al.
- Date : 2000/05/25
- Languages : English
- Source: Nature - vol. 405 - n. 6785
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Global change: plankton cooled a greenhouse.
- Author(s) : SCHMITZ B.
- Date : 2000/09/14
- Languages : English
- Source: Nature - vol. 407 - n. 6801
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Les climats du futur vus du passé.
- Author(s) : MARANO S.
- Date : 1997/11
- Languages : French
- Source: Défis CEA - n. 62
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La fonte des glaciers tropicaux.
- Author(s) : FRANCOU B., RIBSTEIN P., POUYAUD B.
- Date : 1997/10
- Languages : French
- Source: Recherche - n. 302
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Holocene carbon-cycle dynamics based on CO2 tra...
- Author(s) : INDERMÜHLE A., STOCKER T. F., JOOS F., FISCHER H., SMITH H. J., WAHLEN M., DECK B., MASTROIANNI D., TSCHUMI J., BLUNIER T., MEYER R., STAUFFER B.
- Date : 1999/03/11
- Languages : English
- Source: Nature - vol. 398 - n. 6723
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