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  2. Greenhouse and icehouse Earth - Wikipedia

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    Throughout Earth's climate history (Paleoclimate) its climate has fluctuated between two primary states: greenhouse and icehouse Earth. [1] Both climate states last for millions of years and should not be confused with the much smaller glacial and interglacial periods, which occur as alternating phases within an icehouse period (known as an ice age) and tend to last less than one million years ...

  3. Icehouse earth - Wikipedia

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  4. Snowball Earth - Wikipedia

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    Several unanswered questions remain, including whether Earth was a full "snowball" or a "slushball" with a thin equatorial band of open (or seasonally open) water. The Snowball Earth episodes are proposed to have occurred before the sudden radiations of multicellular bioforms known as the Avalon and Cambrian explosions ; the most recent ...

  5. Azolla event - Wikipedia

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    The modern fern Azolla filiculoides.Blooms of a related species may have pulled the Earth into the current icehouse world.. The Azolla event is a paleoclimatology scenario hypothesized to have occurred in the middle Eocene epoch, [1] around , when blooms of the carbon-fixing freshwater fern Azolla are thought to have happened in the Arctic Ocean.

  6. Ice cap climate - Wikipedia

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    Ice cap climate is the world's coldest climate, and includes the coldest places on Earth. With an average temperature of −55.2 °C (−67.4 °F), Vostok, Antarctica is the coldest place in the world, and has also recorded the lowest temperature, −89.2 °C (−128.6 °F). [ 3 ]

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  8. Category:Ice ages - Wikipedia

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    Ice ages, long periods of reduction in the temperature of the Earth's surface and atmosphere, resulting in the presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages and greenhouse periods , during which there are no glaciers on the planet.

  9. Timeline of glaciation - Wikipedia

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    The Earth is currently in such an interglacial period of the Quaternary glaciation, with the Last Glacial Period of the Quaternary having ended approximately 11,700 years ago. The current interglacial is known as the Holocene epoch. [ 1 ]