glaciation

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That period coincides with major changes in Antarctica's climate system, including the beginning of widespread glaciation.

From Science Daily • Mar. 7, 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

Earth’s glaciation, they say, may have come from a global drop in carbon dioxide emissions, a result of fewer volcanoes expelling the gas into the atmosphere.

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

Wisconsinan glaciation again rendered Canada uninhabitable, and it is quite possible that extensive areas in the Rocky Mountains, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada were heavily glaciated.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.