Sentences with phrase «known global glaciation»
This is also a period when Earth experienced its first known global glaciation.
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Without knowing the bigger picture (i.e having right global model of glaciations - deglaciations), the «local» responses may be misleading, especially for practical purposes.
However, we know that severe and abrupt climate shifts of global extent have occurred (infrequently) during glaciations, and almost never during warmer interglacial periods such as the current Holocene.
«In particular, this mechanism may have contributed to Earth's entry into a long period of global glaciation around 700 million years ago, a theory known as the Snowball Earth hypothesis.»