glaciation
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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
Yet efforts to explain what initiated these periods of global glaciation, which have come to be known as "Snowball Earth" events, have been inconclusive.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 9, 2024
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
According to the solar-cyclonic hypothesis, the Pleistocene glacial period was inaugurated at a time when certain terrestrial conditions tended to make the earth especially favorable for glaciation.
From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Ellsworth Huntington
