A 'snowball Earth' climate triggered by continental break-up through changes in runoff

Nature

Volumn 428, Issue 6980, 2004, Pages 303-306

  Donnadleu, Yannick ^a   Goddéris, Yves ^b   Ramstein, Gilles ^a   Nédélec, Anne ^b   Meert, Joseph ^c  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Environmental Research Observatory (ORE) HYBAM Centre IRD d'Ile de France   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATOLOGY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; ICE; WEATHERING;

GLACIATION; ICE SHEETS;

GEOLOGY;

CARBON DIOXIDE; ICE; RUNOFF; SNOW;

CONTINENTAL BREAKUP; EARLY EARTH; GLACIATION; PALEOATMOSPHERE; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY; PALEOZOIC; RODINIA; RUNOFF;

ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERE; BASALT; CONTINENTAL BREAK UP; EVOLUTION; FRANCE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GEOGRAPHY; GEOLOGICAL TIME; GEOLOGY; GLOBAL CLIMATE; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MAGNETISM; MODEL; NEOPROTEROZOIC ERA; PALEOGEOGRAPHY; PALEOMAGNETISM; PALEONTOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIMULATION; SUN;

EID: 1842457075     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature02408     Document Type: Article

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