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7.2 Huronian-Age Glaciation

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Glaciations have occurred throughout much of Earth’s history, episodically and with different durations. Physical and chemical evidence of Earth’s earliest glacially derived rocks was reported from the c. 2.9 Ga Mozaan Group in South Africa (Young et al. 1998) and possible correlative rocks in the West Rand Group of the Witwatersrand Supergroup. No new findings of glacial rocks have been made in the Archaean since, and it remains unresolved whether the South African Archaean diamictites were locally developed or could have broader implications.

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Melezhik, V.A., Young, G.M., Eriksson, P.G., Altermann, W., Kump, L.R., Lepland, A. (2013). 7.2 Huronian-Age Glaciation. In: Melezhik, V., et al. Reading the Archive of Earth’s Oxygenation. Frontiers in Earth Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29670-3_2

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