Snowball Earth: A thin-ice solution with flowing sea glaciers

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 110, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-16

  Pollard, David ^a   Kasting, James F ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENERGY BALANCE; GLACIAL DEPOSIT; ICE COVER; PROTEROZOIC; SEA ICE;

EID: 24944549921     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004JC002525     Document Type: Article

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