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Giant Glaciers Reshaped Earth’s Surface and Paved Way for Complex Life


Scientists have discovered that as glaciers carved through the landscape after the Neoproterozoic ‘snowball Earth’ events, they scraped deep into the Earth’s crust, releasing key minerals that altered ocean chemistry.

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