Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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8913090 | Earth-Science Reviews | 2018 | 93 Pages |
Abstract
Both the relatively moderate sea-level change and the less common, irregular distribution of locally concentrated glacial rainouts provide strong evidence against the presence of a thick, laterally continuous ice cover over oceans and continents extending to equatorial areas. The oceans possibly corresponded to the scenario of a Waterbelt Earth or High-Obliquity Earth; evidence of open oceanic water exists, which would have enabled the continued evolution of biota. Glacial ice was present on tropical continents, but its occurrences may have been regional in patches, sourced from mountainous areas, and ice streams would have reached the oceans only locally, unrelated to a thick continental ice cover.
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Authors
Thilo Bechstädt, Hartmut Jäger, Andreas Rittersbacher, Bolko Schweisfurth, Guy Spence, Georg Werner, Maria Boni,