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

“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

Effect of topography on movement.—The effect of glaciation on topography has been sketched, but the topography in turn exerted an important influence on the direction of ice movement.

From The Geography of the Region about Devils Lake and the Dalles of the Wisconsin by Atwood, Wallace W.