Causes of Glaciation

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What are some causes of glaciation?

Plate Tectonics & Continental Drift (millions to billions of years)

Milankovitch Cycles (thousands to hundreds of thousands of years)

Greenhouse Gas Fluctuations (hundreds to thousands of years)

Extraterrestrial Events (sunspot and meteorite activity, a few years)

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What was the Pleistocene Ice Age?

A major glaciation event that occurred around 2.6 million to 11,700 years ago.

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What is the “Snowball Earth” theory?

A hypothesis suggesting that the Earth was once completely frozen over.

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