Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

snowball earth

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.17 in modern English

Syllables: snow-bal-l earth
IPA

21

Scrabble Score

13

Letters

3

Syllables

11

Unique Chars

Meaning

name

The planet Earth when its surface was almost completely frozen some time earlier than 650 million years ago, according to a hypothesis aiming to explain certain enigmatic features in the geological record, such as apparently glacial sedimentary deposits found at tropical paleolatitudes.

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Questions

What does snowball earth mean?: The planet Earth when its surface was almost completely frozen some time earlier than 650 million years ago, according to a hypothesis aiming to explain certain enigmatic features in the geological record, such as apparently glacial sedimentary deposits found at tropical paleolatitudes.

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