Hodell, D. A. (2016) The smoking gun of the ice ages. Science, 354 (6317). pp. 1235-1236. ISSN 0036-8075 DOI https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4111
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Official URL: http://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4111
Abstract
Forty years ago, Hays, Imbrie, and Shackleton in a paper in Science tested the hypothesis that small changes in Earth's orbital geometry—namely precession, obliquity, and eccentricity—were responsible for the waxing and waning of the great continental ice sheets during the Quaternary period, which began about 2.58 million years ago (1). The paper is considered to be the “smoking gun” in support of the astronomical hypothesis of the Ice Ages, which is over a century old and most often ascribed to Milutin Milankovitch (2).
Item Type: | Article |
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Uncontrolled Keywords: | 2016AREP, IA71 |
Subjects: | 01 - Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems |
Divisions: | 01 - Climate Change and Earth-Ocean Atmosphere Systems |
Journal or Publication Title: | Science |
Volume: | 354 |
Page Range: | pp. 1235-1236 |
Identification Number: | https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aal4111 |
Depositing User: | Sarah Humbert |
Date Deposited: | 24 Apr 2017 20:32 |
Last Modified: | 24 Apr 2017 20:32 |
URI: | http://eprints.esc.cam.ac.uk/id/eprint/3952 |
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