Monday, February 6, 2017
The Snowball earth
So today's lesson was about the ancient climates.
One of the additional reading mentioned was this:
snowball earth
After reading this - I was intrigued the research is quite recent (1998) - and Namibia (which is adjacent to my home country, South Africa) played a crucial role in this.
I searched the timeline of the earth on Google and found this:
The history of the Earth
So the 600 Million years ago there was an Ice Age - actually lined up pretty well with the Biological evolutionary Data.
It is truly fascinating.
I've created a board to illustrate how this happened. I'm still uncertain about the "chemical weathering" part.
My snowball earth
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