Ten million year histories of obliquity and precession: The influence of the ice-age cycle

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 139, Issue 1-2, 1996, Pages 17-32

  Jiang, Xianhua ^a   Peltier, W R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Earth; Ellipticity; Glaciation; Obliquity of the ecliptic; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

EARTH SHAPE; ELLIPTICITY; GLACIATION; OBLIQUITY; PLANETARY INERTIA; PLEISTOCENE; PRECESSION;

EID: 0029749642     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0012-821x(96)00009-x     Document Type: Article

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