glaciation
- a word derived from glaciate.
Example Sentences
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That period coincides with major changes in Antarctica's climate system, including the beginning of widespread glaciation.
From Science Daily ● Mar. 7, 2026
It started with a period of glaciation that must have been a chilly change from the greenhouse-like Oligocene, and ended with a prolonged period of glaciation, too.
From Salon ● Feb. 17, 2025
Their results showed a drop in atmospheric carbon dioxide sufficient to initiate and sustain a 56-million-year glaciation.
From New York Times ● Feb. 7, 2024
Massive ice sheets covered wide swathes of the continent - reaching as far south as Illinois - amid extensive glaciation.
From Reuters ● Oct. 5, 2023
Wisconsinan glaciation again rendered Canada uninhabitable, and it is quite possible that extensive areas in the Rocky Mountains, the Cascades and the Sierra Nevada were heavily glaciated.
From Speciation of the Wandering Shrew by Findley, James S.
