Riauaktual.com – Indonesia as you know is a country located on the equator. This makes Indonesia only have two seasons.
These are the dry season and the rainy season. Meanwhile, we can only find snow at the top of the Jayawijaya Mountains, Papua.
But who would have thought that a study turned out to show that Indonesia was once a country covered in snow.
Not only Indonesia, but 500 million years ago the earth we live in was a giant snowball. So how did the snow go?
Quoted from Pojoksatu.id, the experts in this study revealed that glaciers could melt due to a very powerful ancient volcanic eruption.
When it erupts, the volcano not only spews lava and lava, but also emits volcanic gases. This volcanic gas consists of nitrogen, carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, hydrogen sulfide, and sulfur dioxide.
Well, the carbon dioxide released by a volcano when it erupts can cause a greenhouse effect.
The greenhouse effect is a process when the Earth’s surface becomes hot because of the changing atmosphere. The amount of carbon dioxide that reaches Earth’s atmosphere makes our planet quite hot.
As a result, regions at the equator become warmer so that glaciers melt faster than at the poles.
Unfortunately, until now, there is still no research that provides a definitive answer on this matter.
However, geologists are still researching this phenomenon. You all have no idea if Indonesia is covered in snow, right?
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