Global Cooling Formed Glaciers in Antarctica

According to climate change models covering the Ancient history of the Earth, the Antarctic became covered with the ice sheets it's losing today some 33.5 million years ago, when the overall climate cooled significantly and the planet got converted from a greenhouse to an “ice hous... [ read more >> ]

The ices over Antarctica took only 100,000 years to form, which is a very short time in geological terms

Image comment: The ices over Antarctica took only 100,000 years to form, which is a very short time in geological terms
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The ices over Antarctica took only 100,000 years to form, which is a very short time in geological terms