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Evidence for very cold climatic conditions have occured several times during the Phanerozoic. Because of specific plate-tectonic settings which resulted in polar positions of either small ocean basins or continents, the Paleozoic spells of cold climates led to unipolar glaciations- Only during the Cenozoic a plate-tectonic situation evolved which led to ice shields on Antarctica and around a possibly ice covered Arctic Ocean.
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Ghazi, A. (1983). Glaciated Polar Regions and their Impact on Global Climate. In: Ghazi, A. (eds) Palaeoclimatic Research and Models. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-7236-0_3
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