Mirovia
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Mirovia (from Russian мировой, mirovoy, meaning "global") was a global ocean that encompassed the supercontinent Rodinia in the Neoproterozoic era, about 1 billion to 750 million years ago. Geologic evidence suggests that the middle Neoproterozoic, which is known as the Cryogenian period, was extremely cold; so cold, in fact, that one explanation (the Snowball Earth hypothesis) proposes that Mirovia was completely frozen to a depth of 2 kilometres.
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- McMenamin, Mark A.; Dianna L. McMenamin [1990-01-15]. “The Rifting of Rodina” The Emergence of Animals. ISBN 0-231-06647-3.
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