Conor Feehly is a New Zealand-based science writer. He has earned a master's in science communication from the University of Otago, Dunedin. His writing has appeared in Cosmos Magazine, Discover Magazine and ScienceAlert.
Jam packed issues filled with the latest cutting-edge research, technology and theories delivered in an entertaining and visually stunning way, aiming to educate and inspire readers of all agesAnyone living on Earth between 720 million and 635 million years ago probably would've needed a jacket.." But they've argued quite a bit about just how icy the planet got — specifically, whether thick glacial ice covered the entire globe, all the way down to the equator.
The researchers took advantage of a dating technique called laser ablation mass spectrometry. Mineral samples were collected from the Tava rock, which are rich in iron oxide, and the team then hit them with a laser, releasing small quantities of the radioactive element uranium.
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