Glaciation Is Episodic Because It Has Occurred at Various Times

question 102

True/False

Glaciation is episodic because it has occurred at various times in Earth history since the Precambrian, but periodic in detail because of the alternating glacial and interglacial stages as seen in the Pleistocene.

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