Marinoan glaciation

The Marinoische ice age was an ice age in the geological age of Cryogeniums. The name derives for this ice age was the village of Marino, a suburb of Adelaide in South Australia. The Marinoische Ice Age was a major of at least three ice ages in the era of Neoproterozoic and marked before about 635 million years ago, the end of the Cryogeniums. Several geological findings suggest a global glaciation of the planet and are considered to be evidence of a " Snowball Earth ".

The Marinoische Ice Age had a great impact on the development of life on Earth. First molecular traces of multicellular animals ( Metazoa ) date from the period during the ice age Marinoischen. Fossil finds from the day following the Ice Age Marinoische early Ediacaran, especially from the Doushantuo formation, the development of multicellular animals occupy.