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...
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Snowball Earth (redirect from Varangian glaciation)
Sturtian glaciations were also widespread. Even the leading snowball proponent Hoffman agrees that the 350 thousand-year-long Gaskiers glaciation did not...
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period. The Ediacaran also witnessed several glaciation events, such as the Gaskiers and Baykonurian glaciations. The Shuram excursion also occurred during...
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episode (Gaskiers) also occurs within the wide-ranging Marinoan Epoch. Emerging evidence suggests that the Earth underwent a number of glaciations during...
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Neoproterozoic oxygenation event (section Glaciation)
better oxygenated, with the time interval immediately after the Gaskiers Glaciation displaying evidence of significantly increasing marine oxygen content...
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fossil comprising a series of lobes, first originating before the Gaskiers glaciation; it is plausibly a protozoan, but probably unrelated to the classical...
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Springer Geology. ISBN 978-3-319-74255-7. Narbonne, Guy (2008). The Gaskiers glaciation as a significant divide in Ediacaran history and stratigraphy. 33rd...
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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...
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(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...
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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...
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