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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

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

"The new study proves that this circumpolar current is not what caused the Antarctic glaciation but the consequence of the ice formation."

From Science Daily • Feb. 5, 2024

Massive ice sheets covered wide swathes of the continent - reaching as far south as Illinois - amid extensive glaciation.

From Reuters • Oct. 5, 2023

In neither period were all parts of high latitudes glaciated; yet in both cases glaciation occurred in large regions in lower latitudes.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth




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