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
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
The streams outside the area of glaciation were less seriously disturbed.
From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Wallace W. Atwood
