The researchers have unravelled that the blue Earth - which in today's times has green terrains and blue oceans - was once a huge chunk of ice ... after Snowball Earth thawed out.

“It had been hypothesized that widespread glacial erosion of continental interiors could be caused by the Snowball Earth ice,” said Kirkland, a professor in the School of Earth and Planetary ...

Formed about 800 million years ago on the eastern shore of a past continent called Laurentia, its rocks would have been covered in ice during the so-called “snowball Earths.” The team ...

would appreciate what's left of the snowball. "My local mall opened that same year. It's kind of weird because that mall is dead and then the little snow globe only has a tiny bit of ice left in it.