• The Gaskiers glaciation is a period of widespread glacial deposits (e.g. diamictites) that lasted under 340,000 years, between 579.88 ± 0.44 and 579.63...
    4 KB (440 words) - 14:11, 12 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Snowball Earth
    Sturtian glaciations were also widespread. Even the leading snowball proponent Hoffman agrees that the 350 thousand-year-long Gaskiers glaciation did not...
    100 KB (12,086 words) - 11:15, 11 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ediacaran
    period. The Ediacaran also witnessed several glaciation events, such as the Gaskiers and Baykonurian glaciations. The Shuram excursion also occurred during...
    37 KB (3,650 words) - 05:46, 16 July 2024
  • episode (Gaskiers) also occurs within the wide-ranging Marinoan Epoch. Emerging evidence suggests that the Earth underwent a number of glaciations during...
    15 KB (1,472 words) - 20:37, 4 August 2024
  • better oxygenated, with the time interval immediately after the Gaskiers Glaciation displaying evidence of significantly increasing marine oxygen content...
    27 KB (2,953 words) - 02:34, 26 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Palaeopascichnus
    fossil comprising a series of lobes, first originating before the Gaskiers glaciation; it is plausibly a protozoan, but probably unrelated to the classical...
    3 KB (207 words) - 01:25, 21 June 2024
  • Thumbnail for Ediacaran biota
    Springer Geology. ISBN 978-3-319-74255-7. Narbonne, Guy (2008). The Gaskiers glaciation as a significant divide in Ediacaran history and stratigraphy. 33rd...
    105 KB (11,023 words) - 10:04, 16 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Timeline of glaciation
    Age began 34 million years ago, its latest phase being the Quaternary glaciation, in progress since 2.58 million years ago. Within ice ages, there exist...
    31 KB (2,104 words) - 19:29, 28 August 2024
  • (extending into the early Ediacaran period), the Earth suffered massive glaciations in which most of its surface was covered by ice. This may have caused...
    134 KB (15,430 words) - 19:06, 17 August 2024
  • stratum, with a date about 570 Ma, thus from some time after the great Gaskiers glaciation of [585 ± 1 - 582.1 ± 0.4 Ma]. Doushantuo fossils are all aquatic...
    17 KB (1,853 words) - 21:56, 16 July 2024