Elmer Bataitis wrote:
Nightphoenix wrote:
(SNIP)
"If,
on the other hand, the earth were placed only 1 per cent further from
the sun, runaway glaciation [huge sheets of ice covering much of the
globe] would have occurred some 2 000 million years ago."?Our
Universe: Accident or Design?
"The first or oldest glaciation occurred in the early Proterozoic about
2.5-2.0 billion years ago."
From
http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/time2/
Amazing how the puddle thinks how perfectly the depression matches
itself.
Google snowball earth.
375 million years ago, Earth was intensely
cold and mostly covered with Ice. One of the
great extinctions.
--
"A dead religion is like a dead cat -- the stiffer and
more rotten it is, the better it is as a missile weapon."
- H.G. Wells
Cheerful Charlie
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