[SunkenCiv]

The Scottish rocks studied by the team	Dr Doug Benn (bottom right) at the glacial rocks

[muawiyah]

It's not quite an attack on that particular period of glaciation ~ just the idea that the entire Ocean was covered over with ice.

At the same time the work under way to date the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains and the 3 KM of ice covering them may show that ice to date back to the period of "Snowball Earth".

A whole new era of Antarctic discovery and climatology will begin with the results of those studies.

[UCANSEE2]

The reason there are underground lakes and tropical temperatures under miles of ice at the poles is because what is the POLAR area now, used to be at the equator.

Areas like North America and Canada, which used to be covered with ice, were nearer to the pole.

The Earth has ‘flipped’ somewhat, over the eons. At least that is what the physical evidence suggests.

[saltus]

From the article:
“Dr Condon said that others had approached the debate with a geochemical argument by examining isotopes of carbon while the St Andrews team had looked at the glacial rocks themselves.”

This makes no sense if they mean C-14 (half-life is only 5730 years) for an event in the pre-Cambrian (600 MYBP).

Does he mean relative abundance of C-12 and C-13?

[denydenydeny]

Meanwhile, the History Channel “documentary” on the history of the earth which features 20 minutes on “snowball earth” with full animation. Probably thousands of kids have been shown it at school.

[Mike Darancette]

Many things have been discovered while gazing into “Scotch Rocks”.

[SuziQ]

It’s my understanding that ‘Snowball Earth’ didn’t mean that the Earth was a ball of ice, but that areas that didn’t normally freeze would have done so. That doesn’t necessarily mean the entire earth, and that includes the oceans, would have been frozen, as well.

[steelyourfaith]

"The Laurentian Great Lakes were formed nearly 20,000 years ago when the earth's climate warmed and the last glacial continental ice sheet retreated. The glacier, up to 2 miles thick, was so heavy and powerful it gouged out the earth's surface to create the lake basins. Meltwater from the retreating glacier filled the newly created basins. Approximately 3,500-4,000 years ago, the Great Lakes attained their modern levels and area."

How many SUVs and dirty coal power plants was required to melt that ice sheet, I wonder.

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !