Missing link to ‘Snowball Earth’ history emerges from unusual rocks on Pikes Peak
The evidence was found in an unusual pebbly sandstone, Tava, encapsulated within the granite that formed Colorado’s Pikes Peak around 700 million years ago. Read from 鶹ѰBoulder experts Rebecca Flowers and Liam Courtney-Davies and Colorado College’s on The Conversation.
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