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Nature Geoscience 1, 351–353 (1 June 2008) | doi:10.1038/ngeo214

Palaeoclimate: Marinoan meltdown

Graham Anthony Shields

Imagine that the planet Earth fell into a seemingly perpetual deep freeze. As thick ice caps formed, sea levels would drop by hundreds of metres, turning huge tracts of previously submerged continental shelf into Arctic wasteland.