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

The sudden coming of glaciation is another problem which has been a stumbling-block in the way of every glacial hypothesis.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth