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Large equatorial seasonal cycle during Marinoan snowball Earth
In the equatorial regions on Earth today, the seasonal cycle of the monthly mean surface air temperature is <10°C. However, deep (>1 m) sand wedges were found near the paleoequator in the Marinoan glaciogenic deposits at ~635 million years ago, indicating a large seasonal cycle (probably >3...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7269644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32537489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay2471 |
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author | Liu, Yonggang Yang, Jun Bao, Huiming Shen, Bing Hu, Yongyun |
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description | In the equatorial regions on Earth today, the seasonal cycle of the monthly mean surface air temperature is <10°C. However, deep (>1 m) sand wedges were found near the paleoequator in the Marinoan glaciogenic deposits at ~635 million years ago, indicating a large seasonal cycle (probably >30°C). Through numerical simulations, we show that the equatorial seasonal cycle could reach >30°C at various continental locations if the oceans are completely frozen over, as would have been the case for a snowball Earth, or could reach ~20°C if the oceans are not completely frozen over, as would have been the case for a waterbelt Earth. These values are obtained at the maximum eccentricity of the Earth orbit, i.e., 0.0679, and will be approximately 10°C smaller if the present-day eccentricity is used. For these seasonal cycles, theoretical calculations show that the deep sand wedges form readily in a snowball Earth while hardly form in a waterbelt Earth. |
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spelling | pubmed-72696442020-06-11 Large equatorial seasonal cycle during Marinoan snowball Earth Liu, Yonggang Yang, Jun Bao, Huiming Shen, Bing Hu, Yongyun Sci Adv Research Articles In the equatorial regions on Earth today, the seasonal cycle of the monthly mean surface air temperature is <10°C. However, deep (>1 m) sand wedges were found near the paleoequator in the Marinoan glaciogenic deposits at ~635 million years ago, indicating a large seasonal cycle (probably >30°C). Through numerical simulations, we show that the equatorial seasonal cycle could reach >30°C at various continental locations if the oceans are completely frozen over, as would have been the case for a snowball Earth, or could reach ~20°C if the oceans are not completely frozen over, as would have been the case for a waterbelt Earth. These values are obtained at the maximum eccentricity of the Earth orbit, i.e., 0.0679, and will be approximately 10°C smaller if the present-day eccentricity is used. For these seasonal cycles, theoretical calculations show that the deep sand wedges form readily in a snowball Earth while hardly form in a waterbelt Earth. American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020-06-03 /pmc/articles/PMC7269644/ /pubmed/32537489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay2471 Text en Copyright © 2020 The Authors, some rights reserved; exclusive licensee American Association for the Advancement of Science. No claim to original U.S. Government Works. Distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial License 4.0 (CC BY-NC). http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) , which permits use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, so long as the resultant use is not for commercial advantage and provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Research Articles Liu, Yonggang Yang, Jun Bao, Huiming Shen, Bing Hu, Yongyun Large equatorial seasonal cycle during Marinoan snowball Earth |
title | Large equatorial seasonal cycle during Marinoan snowball Earth |
title_full | Large equatorial seasonal cycle during Marinoan snowball Earth |
title_fullStr | Large equatorial seasonal cycle during Marinoan snowball Earth |
title_full_unstemmed | Large equatorial seasonal cycle during Marinoan snowball Earth |
title_short | Large equatorial seasonal cycle during Marinoan snowball Earth |
title_sort | large equatorial seasonal cycle during marinoan snowball earth |
topic | Research Articles |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7269644/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32537489 http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay2471 |
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