glaciation

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These sediments formed during the Sturtian glaciation, the most intense Snowball Earth episode, which lasted about 57 million years.

From Science Daily • Feb. 12, 2026

It started with a period of glaciation that must have been a chilly change from the greenhouse-like Oligocene, and ended with a prolonged period of glaciation, too.

From Salon • Feb. 17, 2025

Perhaps that helped kick off a global glaciation, Dr. Dutkiewicz said, but it couldn’t have kept Earth frozen for 56 million years on its own.

From New York Times • Feb. 7, 2024

Massive ice sheets covered wide swathes of the continent - reaching as far south as Illinois - amid extensive glaciation.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2023

It is well established that in times of glaciation the snow line was depressed everywhere, but least near the equator.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth