Passing through a giant molecular cloud: "Snowball" glaciations produced by interstellar dust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Pavlov, Alexander A ^a   Toon, Owen B ^a   Pavlov, Anatoli K ^b   Bally, John ^a   Pollard, David ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; GALAXIES; GLACIERS; SNOW; SOLAR SYSTEM;

GLACIATIONS; INTERSTELLAR DUSTS; MOLECULAR CLOUDS; RADIATIVE FORCING;

ASTRONOMY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIATION; GLOBAL CHANGE; INTERPLANETARY DUST;

EID: 17744384269     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021890     Document Type: Article

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