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Glaciers, geologists realized, could leave giant scratch marks on bedrock and carry boulders to distant landscapes, often dropping those rocks at sea. Once the signs of glaciation were recognized for the Pleistocene Epoch roughly 2. Combining the evidence for glaciation with the evidence for plate tectonics and continental drift has enabled geologists to identify glacial activity from hundreds of millions of years ago, when continents were configured very differently.
After years of explaining geologic phenomena as the result of the Noachian flood, the 19th-century British geologist William Buckland accepted the evidence for glacial action. He became a proponent of the Ice Age theory. Image credit: Wellcome Collection. Attribution 4. In all, scientists have identified upwards of a dozen ice ages in the geologic record, several of them in the last half a billion years.
Among the earliest ice ages so far found in the geological record are the Huronian ice ages. Interspersed with non-glacial periods, the ice ages occurred between 2. Paleontologists surmise that when microbial life arose on Earth over 3. Although nitrogen levels may have been similar, other gases were much more—or much less—abundant.
Carbon dioxide was anywhere from 10 to 2, times present levels, and methane may have been as much as 10, times higher than present levels. Atmospheric oxygen was virtually nonexistent. Scientists debate when exactly microbes capable of carrying out photosynthesis and making oxygen as a byproduct first evolved.
Estimates range from about 3. The earliest oxygen makers were probably ancestors of modern cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae. At first, the oxygen produced by these early photosynthesizers probably reacted with iron in the ocean, settling into layers of rusty sediment on the seafloor before starting to accumulate in the atmosphere. Some oxygen reacted with methane, converting it to carbon dioxide and water.
Meanwhile, photosynthesizing microbe populations kept growing, consuming more carbon dioxide. Ancestors of modern cyanobacteria blue-green algae may have been the first oxygen producers on planet Earth, and ushered in significant changes in climate. CC license by Flickr user Richard Droker. Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, and methane is an even more potent greenhouse gas. As atmospheric concentrations of these greenhouse gases dropped, global temperatures plummeted, plunging the planet into a series of ice ages.
The Huronian ice ages and non-glacial periods separating them likely lasted a total of million years. Evidence suggests these glaciations reached equatorial regions at sea level. Ice occurs in equatorial regions today, but only at high elevations. Geologic evidence of these ice ages was first discovered in , in glacial deposits near Lake Huron. Since then, geologists have discovered more evidence elsewhere in North America, as well as in South Africa, Western Australia, and northeastern Europe.
Found near Whitefish Falls, Ontario, along the northern shore of Lake Huron, this dropstone landed in seafloor sediments under a floating glacier some 2.
Lindsey, USGS. The rise of oxygen did more than freeze the planet. At least twice between and million years ago, Earth fell into a deep freeze. Because the Cryogenian Period events occurred during a longer geologic era known as the Neoproterozoic Era, the deep freezes are sometimes referred to as the Neoproterozoic Snowball Earths. Scientists continue to debate the causes of Neoproterozoic freezes and the subsequent thaws. Volcanoes may be the force that both pushed the planet into the glaciations and also pulled it out.
About million years ago, most continents were clustered around the equator. Within this continental mix, geologists have identified evidence of what they call a large igneous province. By the end of the 19th century, scientists had named four ice ages that occurred during the Pleistocene Epoch , which lasted from about 2. It wasn't until decades later, however, that researchers realized that these cold periods came with much more regularity.
A major breakthrough in the understanding of ice age cycles came in the s, when Serbian astrophysicist Milutin Milankovitch proposed what became known as the Milankovitch cycles, insights into Earth's movement that are still used to explain climate variation today. Milankovitch outlined three main ways Earth's orbit varies with respect to the sun, Mark Maslin, a professor of paleoclimatology at University College London, told Live Science. These factors determine how much solar radiation in other words, heat reaches the planet.
First, there's the eccentric shape of Earth's orbit around the sun, which varies from nearly circular to elliptical on a 96,year cycle.
Second, there's the tilt of Earth, which is the reason we have seasons. The Bronze Age marked the first time humans started to work with metal. Bronze tools and weapons soon replaced earlier stone versions.
Humans made many technological advances during the The most recent ice age peaked between 24, and 21, years ago, when vast ice sheets covered North America and northern Europe, and mountain ranges like Africa's Mt. Kilimanjaro and South America's Andes were encased in glaciers. At that point our Homo sapien ancestors had Led by Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist, the study attempts to sketch out a linguistic family tree that stretches back some 15, years to southern Europe.
During this era, America became The Cretaceous-Tertiary extinction event, or the K-T event, is the name given to the die-off of the dinosaurs and other species that took place some For many years, paleontologists believed this event was caused by climate and geological changes that The Neolithic Revolution, also called the Agricultural Revolution, marked the transition in human history from small, nomadic bands of hunter-gatherers to larger, agricultural settlements and early civilization.
The Neolithic Revolution started around 10, B. Live TV. This Day In History.
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