When Earth was slushy
November 05, 2024
November 05, 2024
BLACKSBURG, Virginia, Nov. 5 -- Virginia Tech issued the following news:
At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet.
Results from a Virginia Tech-led study provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the slushy planet otherwise known as the "plumeworld ocean" era when sky-high carbon dioxide levels forced the frozen Earth into a massive, rapid melting period.
At the end of the last global ice age, the deep-frozen Earth reached a built-in limit of climate change and thawed into a slushy planet.
Results from a Virginia Tech-led study provide the first direct geochemical evidence of the slushy planet otherwise known as the "plumeworld ocean" era when sky-high carbon dioxide levels forced the frozen Earth into a massive, rapid melting period.