Definition of Glaciations. Meaning of Glaciations. Synonyms of Glaciations

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Definition of Glaciations

Glaciation
Glaciation Gla`ci*a"tion, n. 1. Act of freezing. 2. That which is formed by freezing; ice. 3. The process of glaciating, or the state of being glaciated; the production of glacial phenomena.

Meaning of Glaciations from wikipedia

- Quaternary glaciation at the end of the Pleistocene, and began about 110,000 years ago and ended about 11,700 years ago. The glaciations that occurred...
- Rocky Mountains) or Fraser (Cordilleran ice sheet) glaciation was the last of the major glaciations to appear in the Rocky Mountains in the United States...
- favour has mounted. A minor series of glaciations occurred from 460 to 430 Ma, and there were extensive glaciations from 350 to 289 Ma. The Late Cenozoic...
- Weichselian glaciation, after the German name for the Vistula river. Despite the global changes in climate that were responsible for the major glaciations cycles...
- Milankovitch Archived December 10, 2003, at the Wayback Machine "Why do glaciations occur?". Archived from the original on 2019-12-08. Retrieved 2018-06-17...
- The Baykonurian glaciation is a glacial episode dating to around the Proterozoic–Phanerozoic boundary, at the end of the Ediacaran Period. The date of...
- called Quaternary glaciation. Individual pulses of cold climate within an ice age are termed glacial periods (glacials, glaciations, glacial stages, stadials...
- followed by another global ice age, the Marinoan glaciation. There is controversy over whether these glaciations indeed covered the entire planet, or whether...
- The Sturtian glaciation was a worldwide glaciation during the Cryogenian Period when the Earth experienced repeated large-scale glaciations. As of January 2023[update]...
- Sturtian or Marinoan glaciations, and probably not global in extent. Emerging evidence suggests that Earth underwent a number of glaciations during the Neoproterozoic...