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Palaeoclimate

Slush find

Nature volume 450, pages 807–808 (2007)Cite this article

A coupled model of palaeoclimate and carbon cycling turns up the heat on the idea that Earth once became a giant snowball. It supports instead a milder 'slushball Earth' history — but piquant questions remain.

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  1. Alan J. Kaufman is in the Geology Department, University of Maryland, USA, and is currently on sabbatical at the Geologisch–Paläontologisches Institut, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, Corrensstraße 24, 48149 Münster, Germany. kaufman@geol.umd.edu,

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