glaciation

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Subsequent glaciations continued their erosion, giving many canyons within the structure their present distinctive shape.

From Science Daily • Mar. 13, 2024

The mine’s discovery is fairly rare in North Dakota and the region, as many remains of animals alive during the last Ice Age were destroyed by glaciations and movements of ice sheets, Ullmann said.

From Seattle Times • Jan. 6, 2024

Short-term factors are more recognizable for the most recent Pliocene-Quaternary Glaciation and are most relevant to today’s anthropogenic climate change, but may have taken place in the earlier glaciations.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Figure 16.2 The record of major past glaciations during Earth’s history.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Tolima, they could never have got down again, with the assistance of forty glaciations.

From Life: Its True Genesis by Wright, R. W.