Glacial Periods on Early Earth and Implications for the Evolution of Life
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Early Earth's environment might have been more temperate than traditionally thought.
“However, with a faint young sun, the surface of the early Earth may have been cold enough for significant ocean ice to form (Kienert et al. 2012;Feulner 2012), and the environment of the early Earth may have been more temperate than the traditional model suggests (Hren et al. 2009;Vincent et al. 2004).”
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- Authors
- Vincent, W. F., Mueller, D., Van Hove, P., & Howard-Williams, C.
- Affiliations
- Center for Northern Studies (CA)
- Corresponding author
- Vincent, Warwick F.
- Venue
- Cellular Origin, Life in Extreme Habitats and Astrobiology
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Published
- 2004
- Pages
- 483-501
- ISSN
- 1566-0400 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W223925585
- Cited by
- 25
- References
- 90
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2023: 1 · 2021: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 1 · 2014: 2
- FWCI
- 4.19
- Type
- book chapter
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Cellular origin and life in extreme habitats (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Paleontology › Paleontology and Stratigraphy of Fossils
- Physical Sciences › Physics and Astronomy › Astronomy and Astrophysics › Origins and Evolution of Life
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Atmospheric Science › Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution
- Keywords
- ice ages, early Earth, evolution of life, Snowball Earth, early Earth climate, origin of life
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