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

“So there has to be another mystery mechanism that would have sustained the glaciation for that long,” she said.

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 assumption of a great general lowering of temperature is also not adequate to explain glaciation in subtropical latitudes.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth