Snowball cycles rock (IMAGE)

University of Southampton

Snowball cycles rock

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Close-up views of thin, repeating rock layers known as varves, each thought to represent a single year of sedimentation during Snowball Earth

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Professor Thomas Gernon, University of Southampton

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