The physics of wind-blown sand and dust

JF Kok, EJR Parteli, TI Michaels… - Reports on progress in …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The transport of sand and dust by wind is a potent erosional force, creates sand dunes and
ripples, and loads the atmosphere with suspended dust aerosols. This paper presents an …

Climate of the Neoproterozoic

RT Pierrehumbert, DS Abbot, A Voigt… - Annual Review of Earth …, 2011 - annualreviews.org
The Neoproterozoic is a time of transition between the ancient microbial world and the
Phanerozoic, marked by a resumption of extreme carbon isotope fluctuations and glaciation …

Snowball Earth climate dynamics and Cryogenian geology-geobiology

PF Hoffman, DS Abbot, Y Ashkenazy, DI Benn… - Science …, 2017 - science.org
Geological evidence indicates that grounded ice sheets reached sea level at all latitudes
during two long-lived Cryogenian (58 and≥ 5 My) glaciations. Combined uranium-lead and …

Dodging snowballs: Geochronology of the Gaskiers glaciation and the first appearance of the Ediacaran biota

JP Pu, SA Bowring, J Ramezani, P Myrow… - …, 2016 - pubs.geoscienceworld.org
The snowball Earth hypothesis predicts that low-latitude glaciation lasted millions of years
while CO2 built up to critical levels to culminate in catastrophic deglaciation in a …

The Jormungand global climate state and implications for Neoproterozoic glaciations

DS Abbot, A Voigt, D Koll - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Geological and geochemical evidence can be interpreted as indicating strong hysteresis in
global climate during the Neoproterozoic glacial events (∼ 630 Ma and∼ 715 Ma) …

The MACC-II 2007–2008 reanalysis: atmospheric dust evaluation and characterization over northern Africa and the Middle East

E Cuevas, C Camino, A Benedetti… - Atmospheric …, 2015 - acp.copernicus.org
In the present work, atmospheric mineral dust from a MACC-II short reanalysis run for 2
years (2007–2008) has been evaluated over northern Africa and the Middle East using …

Ice-free tropical waterbelt for Snowball Earth events questioned by uncertain clouds

C Braun, J Hörner, A Voigt, JG Pinto - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Geological evidence of active tropical glaciers reaching sea level during the Neoproterozoic
(1,000–541 Ma), suggesting a global ocean completely covered in ice, was the key …

Coupled dolomite and silica precipitation from continental weathering during deglaciation of the Marinoan Snowball Earth

Y Fang, H Xu - Precambrian Research, 2022 - Elsevier
Geological records show that multiple ice sheets have covered tropical areas toward the end
of the Neoproterozoic. The Snowball Earth concept, one of the most prevalent hypotheses …

Cryoconite pans on Snowball Earth: supraglacial oases for Cryogenian eukaryotes?

PF Hoffman - Geobiology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Geochemical, paleomagnetic, and geochronological data increasingly support the Snowball
Earth hypothesis for Cryogenian glaciations. Yet, the fossil record reveals no clear‐cut …

[HTML][HTML] Resolved snowball Earth clouds

DS Abbot - Journal of Climate, 2014 - journals.ametsoc.org
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