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Salt may have helped turn Earth into a frozen world 700 million years ago - Phys.org

By Hannah Bird

Salt may have helped turn Earth into a frozen world 700 million years ago - Phys.org

Earth may have been pushed deeper into a global deep freeze by something surprisingly ordinary: salt. Around 700 million years ago, Earth entered periods of extreme glaciation known as Snowball Earth, when ice is thought to have spread across much or potentia…

Earth may have been pushed deeper into a global deep freeze by something surprisingly ordinary: salt. Around 700 million years ago, Earth entered periods of extreme glaciation known as Snowball Earth… [+7508 chars]

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