” Cooling to near-glacial climates was astonishingly rapid, on the order of a few decades at most. “
The Younger Dryas and volcanic eruptions
Kicking-off planetary Snowball conditions
“Twice in the Cryogenian Period of the Neoproterozoic, glacial- and sea ice extended from both poles to the Equator, giving ‘Snowball Earth’ conditions. “
Submarine landslides and formation of the East African Rift System
“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. “
Update on climate and sea-level change during the Cenozoic
“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.”
