Oct. 2, 2024 — Small iron-rich formations found within Western Australia's Pinnacles, which are part of the world's largest wind-blown limestone belt spanning more than 1000km, have provided new ...

Geologists in Australia have uncovered a chilling discovery about Earth's ancient past, shedding light on a mystery that ...

What we’re not sure is why. During the first of Earth’s deep freezes – an event lasting around 60 million years, today known as the Sturtian glaciation – we lost the rocks recording its transition ...

This marks the onset of the Sturtian glaciation and would be the first of two "snowball Earth" events during which much of the planet’s surface was covered in ice. It is thought that ...

This period, which broadly coincides with the snowball Earth, is actually split into two global ice ages: the Sturtian glaciation (or freeze) and the Marinoan glaciation. Our GSSP would act as a ...

However, just what caused this has been an open question.” Named after Charles Sturt, the 19th-century European colonial explorer of central Australia, the Sturtian glaciation spanned from 717 to 660 ...