Snowball Earth
English
Proper noun
- (geology) The planet Earth when its surface was almost completely frozen some time earlier than 650 million years ago, according to a hypothesis aiming to explain certain enigmatic features in the geological record, such as apparently glacial sedimentary deposits found at tropical paleolatitudes.
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