Forty years of linking orbits to ice ages

Mark Maslin ()
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Mark Maslin: University College London, London WC1E 6BT, UK.

Nature, 2016, vol. 540, issue 7632, 208-209

Abstract: In 1976, it was demonstrated that tiny wobbles in Earth's orbit led to the great ice-age cycles of the past few million years. This finding had wide implications for climate science and the details remain hotly debated today.

Date: 2016
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DOI: 10.1038/540208a

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