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interglacial periods known as the
Quaternary glaciation which started around 2,588,000
years ago and is ongoing. The
glaciation and the
current Quaternary Period...
- A
glacial period (alternatively
glacial or
glaciation) is an
interval of time (thousands of years)
within an ice age that is
marked by
colder temperatures...
- The
Quaternary glaciation, also
known as the
Pleistocene glaciation, is an
alternating series of
glacial and
interglacial periods during the Quaternary...
- The
Pongola glaciation is a
glacial episode that
occurred in the Mesoarchean, 2.9 Ga for
about 150 Ma. It is the
oldest known glaciation on the planet...
- The
Baykonurian glaciation is a
glacial episode dating to
around the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic boundary, at the end of the
Ediacaran Period. The date of...
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began 34
million years ago, its
latest phase being the
Quaternary glaciation, in
progress since 2.58
million years ago.
Within ice ages,
there exist...
- The
Wisconsin glaciation, also
called the
Wisconsin glacial episode, was the most
recent glacial period of the
North American ice
sheet complex, peaking...
- The Würm
glaciation or Würm
stage (German: Würm-Kaltzeit or Würm-Glazial,
colloquially often also Würmeiszeit or Würmzeit; cf. ice age),
usually referred...
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called Quaternary glaciation.
Individual pulses of cold
climate within an ice age are
termed glacial periods (glacials,
glaciations,
glacial stages, stadials...
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included at
least two
large glacial periods, the
Sturtian and
Marinoan glaciations.
Proponents of the
hypothesis argue that it best
explains sedimentary...
