Bibliography of causative studies
of Precambrian glaciation

1960-69

Budyko, M.I., 1969. The effect of solar radiation variations on the climate of the Earth. Tellus 21, 611-619.

Eriksson, E., 1968. Air-ocean-icecap interactions in relation to climatic fluctuations and glaciation cycles. Meteorological Monographs 8, 68-92.

Sellers, W.D., 1969. A global climatic model based on the energy balance of the Earth­atmosphere system. Journal of Applied Meteorology 8, 392-400.


1970-79

Roberts, J.D., 1971. Late Precambrian glaciation: an anti-greenhouse effect? Nature 234, 216.

Roberts, J.D., 1976. Late Precambrian dolomites, Vendian glaciation, and synchroneity of Vendian glaciations. Journal of Geology 84, 47-63.

Schermerhorn, L.J.G., 1974. Late Precambrian mixtites: glacial and/or non-glacial? American Journal of Science 274, 673-824.


1980-89

Sheldon, R.P., 1984. Ice-ring origin of the Earth’s atmosphere and hydrosphere and Late Proterozoic­Cambrian hypothesis. Geological Survey of India Special Publication 17, 17-21


1990-99

Eyles, N., 1993. Earth’s glacial record and its tectonic setting. Earth-Science Reviews 35, 1-248.

Kirschvink, J.L., 1992. Late Proterozoic low-latitude glaciation: the snowball Earth. In The Proterozoic Biosphere, Schopf, J.W. and Klein, C., eds., pp. 51-52, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge.

Rampino, M.R., 1993. Tillites, diamictites, and ballistic ejecta of large impacts. Journal of Geology 101, 675-679.

Young, G.M., 1994. Impacts, tillites, and the breakup of Gondwanaland: a discussion. Journal of Geology 102, 439-456.

Young, G.M., 1995. Are Neoproterozoic glacial deposits preserved on the margins of Laurentia related to the fragmentation of two supercontinents? Geology 23, 153-156.


2002

Schrag, D.P., Berner, R.A., Hoffman, P.F. & Halverson, G.P. 2002. On the initiation of a snowball Earth. Geophysics, Geochemistry, Geosystems 3, on-line 10.1029/2001GC000219.


2003

Goddéris, Y., Donnadieu, Y., Nédélec, A., Dupré, B., Dessert, C., Grard, A., Ramstein, G. & Francois, L.M., 2003. The Sturtian ‘snowball’ glaciation: fire and ice. Earth and Planetary Science Letters 211, 1-12.


2004

Donnadieu, Y., Goddéris, Y., Ramstein, G., Nédélec, A., & Meert, J., 2004. A ‘snowball Earth’ climate triggered by continental break-up through changes in runoff. Nature 428, 303-306.

Donnadieu, Y., Ramstein, G., Goddéris, Y., & Fluteau, F., 2004. Global tectonic setting and climate of the Late Neoproterozoic: a climate-geochemical coupled study. In: Jenkins, G.S., McMenamin, M.A.S., McKey, C.P., & Sohl, L. (eds.) The Extreme Proterozoic: Geology, Geochemistry, and Climate. Geophysical Monograph 146, American Geophysical Union, Washington, DC., p. 79-89.


2005

Kasting, J.F., 2005. Methane and climate during the Precambrian era. Precambrian Research 137, 119-129.

Kopp, R.E., Kirschvink, J.L., Hilburn, I.A., & Nash, C.Z., 2005. The Paleoproterozoic snowball Earth: A climate distaster triggered by the evolution of oxygenic photosynthesis. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (USA) 102, 11131-11136, 10.1073/pnas.0504878102

Pavlov, A.A., Toon, O.B., Pavlov, A.K., Bally, J., & Pollard, D., 2005. Passing through a giant molecular cloud: “Snowball” glaciations produced by interstellar dust. Geophysical Research Letters 32, L03705, 10.1029/2004GL021890


2006

Goddéris, Y., Donnadieu, Y., Dessert, C., Dupré, B., Fluteau, F., François, L. M., Meert, J., Nédélec, A. & Ramstein, G. 2006 Coupled modeling of global carbon cycle and climate in the Neoproterozoic: links between Rodinia breakup and major glaciations. Comptes Rendus Geosciences, In Press, Available online 24 January 2006.

Kasting, J.F. & Ono, S., 2006. Palaeoclimates: the first two billion years. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society, London, Series B 361, 917-919, doi: 1.1098/rstb.2006.1839.

Melezhik, V.A., 2006. Multiple causes of Earth’s earliest global glaciation. Terra Nova 18, 130-137, doi: 1.1111/j.1365-3121.2006.00672.x