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Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1141-2017
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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-11-1141-2017
© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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Articles | Volume 11, issue 3
Research article
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08 May 2017
Research article |  | 08 May 2017

Could promontories have restricted sea-glacier penetration into marine embayments during Snowball Earth events?

Adam J. Campbell, Betzalel Massarano, Edwin D. Waddington, and Stephen G. Warren

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How could plant life, that needs light to survive, live on a planet covered with ice? Such a situation is thought to have existed during what are called the Snowball Earth events over 600 million years ago. Here we find that ice shadows, regions where ice has difficulty flowing into, may have a played a role in that survival of early plant life.
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