Earth's Early Ocean was Cool, not Hot (VIDEO)

Stanford University

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Stanford researchers blasted ancient ocean floor rocks with lasers to boil out the isotopes that provided critical clues about the temperature of the ancient ocean. The early global sea turns out to have been tepid, not a hot primordial soup as had been thought.

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Jack Hubbard, Stanford University News Service

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