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

The project was inspired by the glacial debris left by the ancient glaciation from this period that can be spectacularly observed in the Flinders Ranges in South Australia.

From Science Daily • Feb. 7, 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

Yet a difference of 100,000 years would be more than enough to allow the fossils to have lived either before or after the glaciation, or in an inter-glacial epoch.

From Climatic Changes Their Nature and Causes by Huntington, Ellsworth