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North American ice-sheet dynamics and the onset of 100,000-year glacial cycles [1]

The onset of major glaciations in the Northern Hemisphere about 2.7 million years ago was most probably induced by climate cooling during the late Pliocene epoch. These glaciations, during which the Northern Hemisphere ice sheets successively expanded and retreated, are superimposed on this long-term climate trend, and have been linked to variations in the Earth's orbital parameters.

Publication Date: 
14/08/2008
R. S. W. van de Wal [2], R. Bintanja [3]
Nature [4]
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7206
869
Tags:
Oceans and Seas [5], Climate Change [6], Climate Science [7], N C America [8]

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