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Snowball Earth

Snowball Earth proper noun: the planet Earth when its surface was almost completely frozen some time earlier than 650 million years ago, according to a hypothesis aiming to explain certain enigmatic features in the geological record, such as apparently glacial sedimentary deposits found at tropical paleolatitudes.

Proper noun

Snowball Earth

  1. The planet Earth when its surface was almost completely frozen some time earlier than 650 million years ago, according to a hypothesis aiming to explain certain enigmatic features in the geological record, such as apparently glacial sedimentary deposits found at tropical paleolatitudes.

Questions about Snowball Earth

What does Snowball Earth mean?
Snowball Earth means the planet Earth when its surface was almost completely frozen some time earlier than 650 million years ago, according to a hypothesis aiming to explain certain enigmatic features in the geological record, such as apparently glacial sedimentary deposits found at tropical paleolatitudes.
What part of speech is Snowball Earth?
Snowball Earth is a proper noun.

Words near Snowball Earth in the dictionary

  1. snowball bush
  2. snowball bushes
  3. snowball cacti
  4. snowball cactus
  5. snowball cactuses
  6. Snowball Earth
  7. snowball effect
  8. snowball effects
  9. snowball fight
  10. snowball fights
  11. snowball hammer

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