Nature Communications (Apr 2023)

Mid-latitudinal habitable environment for marine eukaryotes during the waning stage of the Marinoan snowball glaciation

  • Huyue Song,
  • Zhihui An,
  • Qin Ye,
  • Eva E. Stüeken,
  • Jing Li,
  • Jun Hu,
  • Thomas J. Algeo,
  • Li Tian,
  • Daoliang Chu,
  • Haijun Song,
  • Shuhai Xiao,
  • Jinnan Tong

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-37172-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Based on geochemical and paleontological data, this study shows that habitable open-oceans extended to mid-latitude coastal oceans during the waning stage of the Marinoan snowball Earth, offering refugia for benthic photosynthetic eukaryotes