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- The Matterhorn's pyramid is composed of Paleozoic rocks, which were thrusted over the Matterhorn's Mesozoic base during the Cenozoic. Quaternary glaciation and weathering give the mountain its current shape.
- The modern depression can be traced to the incision of large rivers during the Cenozoic prior to the Quaternary glaciation.
- The Quaternary glaciation created more lakes than all other geologic processes combined.
- Ice sheets covered Minnesota as many as twenty times over the 2 million years of the Quaternary glaciation, each advance largely obliterating the results of the previous.
- Metamorphic rock of Cambrian age—mostly schist and phyllite—underlies the area. Quaternary glaciation left deposits of stony loam till plus outwash sands and gravels.
- More recent research analysis that began in 2009 and based on Uranium-thorium dating revealed that the calcite was formed 172,000 to 130,000 years ago during the penultimate quaternary glaciation period.
- However, the Eocene to Oligocene transition and the Quaternary glaciation dried and cooled Earth.
- During the Tertiary and possibly the Interglacial periods of the Quaternary glaciation, the Benue and Niger Valleys, otherwise known as the Niger/Benue trough, were transgressed by the waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
- Later, during Quaternary glaciation, as glaciers swept by, they further deepened those valleys which would eventually (at the end of the last glaciation) be invaded with sea and become calanques.
- The move from the mostly frugivorous or omnivorous diet of hominin "Australopithecus" to the carnivorous scavenging lifestyle of early "Homo" has been explained by the climate changes in East Africa associated with the Quaternary glaciation.
- Erosion along the fault zone during Quaternary glaciation formed Loch Ness.
- The park area features the effects of Quaternary glaciation, and exceptional geological upthrown fault scarps from the Quaternary age.
- The landforms and shallow deposits of northern shields that have been subject to Quaternary glaciation and periglaciation are distinct from those found in closer to the equator.
- Yushan is also notable in containing the highest point on the Tropic of Cancer and the only point on that circle of latitude where there is any evidence of Quaternary glaciation.
- The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic Era, and extended to the beginning of the Quaternary glaciation at the end of the Pliocene Epoch.
- Huangshan was formed approximately 100 million years ago and gained its unique rock formations in the Quaternary Glaciation.
- The cover of morainic debris is omnipresent in the "Sillon de Gap" but is not the only vestige of the Quaternary glaciation.
- A ria is the mouth of a river that flows into the sea, created by the submergence of the riverbed after the rise of the Adriatic sea level for 135 metres after the last quaternary glaciation.
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