Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Research has shown the complex history behind this gap of missing time ...
The Cryogenian period (~720–635 million years ago, Ma) is defined by a pair of these Snowball Earth events; the longer glaciation (Sturtian) lasted for ~57 million years, followed by a brief ...
The rocks examined in this study date back to the Sturtian glaciation, a key phase during the Cryogenian Period, which spans ...