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Glaciation blessed it with hundreds of gorges and waterfalls, while the microclimate of the lakes has created fecund wine country, not to mention a passion for watersports and a town-wide obsession with rowing.

From The Guardian • Nov. 20, 2018

Short-term factors are more recognizable for the most recent Pliocene-Quaternary Glaciation and are most relevant to today’s anthropogenic climate change, but may have taken place in the earlier glaciations.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017

Based on evidence of glacial deposits from the area around Lake Huron in Ontario and elsewhere, it is evident that the Huronian Glaciation lasted from approximately 2,400 to 2,100 Ma.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

The light blue areas are continental shelves, the white is ice of the Karoo Glaciation, and the red line shows subduction of oceanic crust beneath Laurentia.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2015

Glaciation, the process of becoming covered with glaciers.

From A Manual of the Antiquity of Man by MacLean, J. P. (John Patterson)