Glaciation

Glaciation is the forming of ice (glaciers) on land. It is related to the Milankovich theory. A temperature decrease about 4-5o C around the world Higher...

Huronian glaciation (or Makganyene glaciation) lasted from 2400 million years ago (mya) to 2100 mya, during the Paleoproterozoic era. The glaciation was named...

The Late Ordovician glaciation happened about 440–460 million years ago. It also called the Hirnantian glaciation. Its centre was the Sahara region in...

probable that widespread glaciation occurred in periods of the Proterozoic. What is debatable is how widespread those glaciations were. Proponents claim...

both poles began to grow and thicken. By the end of the period the first glaciation of the current Ice Age began. Marine and continental flora and fauna have...

which according to some geologists triggered the Huronian glaciation. The Huronian glaciation took place in the Siderian between 2400 Mya and 2300 Mya...

cooler, with the last glaciation ending about ten thousand years ago. Ice Ages are long times (much much longer than glaciations) when the Earth got colder...

interval of ~1,400 million years with no verified glaciation between early Palaeoproterozoic glaciations at 2400–2200 mya in North America, South Africa...

million to 11,550 years before the present Wisconsin glaciation, refers to the world's last glaciations of the last ice age, from about 72,000 to 11,550 years...

two snowball earth events were previously put together as the Varangian glaciation. They covered much, possibly all, the Earth with ice. The root cause of...

of clay is well understood. It can come from soil, volcanic ash, and glaciation. Ancient mudrocks are another source, because they weather and disintegrate...

stromatolites have lived on Earth since the Mesoarchaean. The Pongola glaciation occurred 2.9 billion years ago. The first supercontinent Vaalbara broke...

Siderian It is followed by the Orosirian. The Huronian (Makganyene) global glaciation began at the start of the Rhyacian. It lasted until 2200 million years...

persons with the name) Corrie or cirque, a terrain feature created by glaciation in high mountains Corrie, Arran, a village on the Isle of Arran, Scotland...

is also part of the boundary between the USA and Canada. The Huronian glaciation, billions of years ago, is named for the lake. Lake Huron is more than...

birds Plucking post as used by birds of prey to eat their prey Plucking (glaciation), a process related to glaciers Pluck (card game), a card game Pluck (offal)...

the Augsburg-Westliche Wälder Nature Park): the rivers Mindel and Flossach in the south (to the Allgäu): the terminal moraines of the Würm glaciation...

Pleistocene. The Beringian land bridge is believed to have existed in the glaciation that occurred before 35,000 BP. During the more recent period 22,000-7...

Snowball Earth Ice core Milankovitch cycle Orbital forcing Pleistocene Glaciation Global warming Imbrie J. & Imbri, K.P. 1979. Ice ages: solving the mystery...

anymore. This mammoth species was first recorded in deposits of a former glaciation in Eurasia, perhaps 150,000 years ago. The woolly mammoth coexisted with...