Rocks can hold clues to history dating back hundreds of millions of years.

New evidence found in the Rocky Mountains of Colorado supports the notion that Snowball Earth was indeed a global phenomenon.

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Geologists found evidence in the way enigmatic sandstones called Tava formed in the Rocky Mountains hundreds of millions of ...

Around 700 million years ago, the Earth cooled so much that scientists believe massive ice sheets encased the entire planet ...

Geologists have uncovered strong evidence from Colorado that massive glaciers covered Earth down to the equator hundreds of ...

While the Earth has experienced countless climate variations during its long history, a longstanding hypothesis known as ...

New research from the University of Colorado Boulder provides evidence supporting the 'Snowball Earth' theory. Geologists ...

Ever since the term “Snowball Earth” was first proposed in a 1992 paper, it has prompted substantial debate among scientists.

Led by the University of Colorado Boulder, the research focuses on the Front Range of Colorado's Rocky Mountains, where ...