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- The Sturtian glaciation was a worldwide glaciation during the Cryogenian Period when the Earth experienced repeated large-scale glaciations. As of January 2023[update]...
- to a multi-million-year-long icehouse climate. A notable example is the Sturtian glaciation, which is considered the most severe and widespread known glacial...
- long environmental stability/stagnation during the Boring Billion, the Sturtian glaciation began at the beginning of Cryogenian, freezing the entire planet...
- Cryogenian period, which included at least two large glacial periods, the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations. Proponents of the hypothesis argue that it best...
- distinct from the earlier glaciation during the Sturtian Epoch (the time period of deposition of the older Sturtian Series). The term Marinoan glaciation was...
- Cryogenian period and consisted of two global glaciation events known as the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations. Xiao et al. suggest that between the period of...
- the Huronian epoch, roughly 2400–2100 Ma. One of the best studied is the Sturtian-Varangian glaciation, around 850–635 Ma, which may have brought glacial...
- large-scale glacial events occurred during the Neoproterozoic Era including the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations of the Cryogenian Period. These glaciations are...
- Proterozoic Eon, possibly climaxing with the hypothesized Snowball Earth of the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations.: 320–321, 325  One of the most important events...
- pre-dating the first globally extensive Neoproterozoic glacial episode (the Sturtian, ~713 million years ago in Oman)". While it has been argued that this 'sponge...