Richard Cowen
American geologist
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Slushball Earth hypothesis
- In Slushball Earth hypothesis
…hypothesis, developed by American geologist Richard Cowen, contends that Earth was not completely frozen over during periods of extreme glaciation in Precambrian times. Rather, in addition to massive ice sheets covering the continents, parts of the planet (especially ocean areas near the Equator) could have been draped only by a…
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