
” Cooling to near-glacial climates was astonishingly rapid, on the order of a few decades at most. “
” Cooling to near-glacial climates was astonishingly rapid, on the order of a few decades at most. “
“Twice in the Cryogenian Period of the Neoproterozoic, glacial- and sea ice extended from both poles to the Equator, giving ‘Snowball Earth’ conditions. “
“East Africa is traversed from the Afar Depression in the north to Malawi in southern Africa by several great depressions bounded by active normal fault systems: grabens in the old terminology. “
“The background to what has become ‘our time’ is not only climate change, but massive shifts in sea level and the outlines of the continents.”