Brenhin Keller, a postdoctoral fellow at the Berkeley Geochronology Center ... shift took place at the theorized beginning of Snowball Earth’s planetwide glaciations, which is only explicable ...

The effort aims to boost access to geochronology data and expertise to advance scientists’ understanding of Earth systems, launch a platform to attract under-represented minorities to the geosciences, ...

His current research focuses on geochronology method development and Snowball Earth research. An ocean of magma formed early in Earth's history and it may still influence our planet today ...

Geologists have long suspected that Earth's temperature dropped dramatically during this time, resulting in a frigid "Snowball Earth." But they've argued quite a bit about just how icy the planet ...

An artist's conception of "Snowball Earth," when the planet was either completely or largely covered in ice hundreds of millions of years ago. Credit: Mark Garlick / Science Photo Library / Getty ...

Scientists nicknamed this stage of geological history, and others like it, Snowball Earth. What exactly froze the planet nearly solid has been a mystery, as has how it remained that way for 56 ...

However, like Olaf probably wasn't traversing that icy ancient Earth, Elsa wasn’t the one responsible for making our planet a big snowball in the first place. Nope, it was the great Mother Nature.

"Snow is Earth's sunscreen. It protects against warming," said Zebisch. White snow reflects the sunlight, keeping the soil cool and damp for longerImage: Jan Eifert/picture alliance In the low ...

This study presents the first physical evidence that Snowball Earth reached the heart of continents at the equator.' Anyone living on Earth between 720 million and 635 million years ago probably ...