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      • Evidence for an ice age about 650 million years ago has long puzzled geologists because the ice appeared to have reached from the poles almost to the equator. An American geologist, however, believes that it did not and that, contrary to popular belief, most glaciers never got within 30 degree of the equator.
      www.newscientist.com/article/mg14319362-600-science-did-the-earth-ever-freeze-over/
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  2. His studies of phosphorus deposits and banded iron formations in sedimentary rocks made him an early adherent of the snowball Earth hypothesis postulating that the planet's surface froze more than 650 Ma.

  3. Mar 15, 2017 · Around 717 million years ago, the Earth froze over. The Sturtian glaciation, as this event is known, was no ordinary Ice Age but one so extreme that it caused the Earth to become a giant...

  4. Feb 5, 2019 · Scientists believe that three to four severe ice ages, which froze nearly or all of the surface, occurred between 750 million and 580 million years ago, probably because Earth's land masses...

  5. For nearly 60 million years, our home planet was likely frozen into a big snowball. Now, scientists have discovered evidence of Earth's transition from a tropical underwater world, writhing with photosynthetic bacteria, to a frozen wasteland – all preserved within the layers of giant rocks in a chain of Scottish and Irish islands.

  6. Apr 4, 2023 · WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - Life on our planet faced a stern test during the Cryogenian Period that lasted from 720 million to 635 million years ago when Earth twice was frozen over with...

  7. Apr 11, 2023 · 650 million years ago, Earth was covered in ice during an "extreme" 15-million-year-long ice age. New research suggests that towards the end this period, Earth may not have been fully...

  8. Nov 8, 2022 · 650 million years ago, Earth was completely or almost completely frozen, according to the Snowball Earth Hypothesis. As the atmosphere changed and Earth warmed up, it heralded the beginning of...

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