Several times in its history, Earth experienced global (or near-global) glaciations which have been called Snowball Earth events. The most recent of these occurred during the Neoproterozoic.
Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events
Publications related to Snowball Earth events
- Feulner G., Hallmann C., Kienert H., 2015: Snowball cooling after algal rise, Nature Geoscience, 8, 659-662 (September 2015). doi:10.1038/ngeo2523
- See also the Editorial in Nature Geoscience, 8, 655, doi:10.1038/ngeo2531
- Feulner G., Kienert H., 2014: Climate simulations of Neoproterozoic snowball Earth events: Similar critical carbon dioxide levels for the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations, Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 404 (15 October 2014), 200-205. doi:10.1016/j.epsl.2014.08.001
