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How Earth avoided global warming, last time around
2014-06-12 20:32:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
ScienceDaily: Geochemists have calculated a huge rise in atmospheric CO2 was only avoided by the formation of a vast mountain range in the middle of the ancient supercontinent, Pangea. This work is being presented to the Goldschmidt geochemistry conference in Sacramento, California. Around 300 million years ago, plate tectonics caused the continents to aggregate into a giant supercontinent, known as "Pangea." The sheer size of the continent meant that much of the land surface was far from the sea, and so the...
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