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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]...
- long environmental stability/stagnation during the Boring Billion, the Sturtian glaciation began at the beginning of Cryogenian, freezing the entire planet...
- 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...
- 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, which included at least two large glacial periods, the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations. Proponents of the hypothesis argue that it best...
- 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...
- Proterozoic Eon, possibly climaxing with the hypothesized Snowball Earth of the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations.: 320–321, 325  One of the most important events...
- large-scale glacial events occurred during the Neoproterozoic Era including the Sturtian and Marinoan glaciations of the Cryogenian Period. These glaciations are...
- Adelaide Superbasin are the two Neoproterozoic Snowball Earth events (the Sturtian and Marinoan Glaciations), the Neoproterozoic Oxygenation Event, the Ediacaran...
- least its end) created conditions favorable to evolution. The earlier Sturtian glacial maxima (~730 million years) may also have been a snowball Earth...