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

More information is available about the Wisconsinan, or last, glacial age, than about the earlier ones, because the last glaciation in many montane areas destroyed evidence of earlier glaciations.

From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.