By: magic-gigapans
Image: Robin Rohrback, Mid-Atlantic Geo-Image Collection
License: Creative Commons Non Commercial ⧉

Uploaded: 4 May 2020
Last Updated: 28 May 2020

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Carbonate mudstone with calcitic dropstone from the lower member of the Ghaub Formation in Namibia. This rock records the onset of Marinoan glaciation, represented by dropstones in the Ghaub Formation. This sample is from the Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite, and comes courtesy of Paul Hoffman, Harvard University; Eugene Domack, Hamilton College; and Timothy Fox, Hamilton College. For more information on the Snowball Earth Educational Rock Sample Suite, visit http://www.snowballearth.org/samples.html