A resonance in the Earth's obliquity and precession over the past 20 Myr driven by mantle convection

Nature

Volumn 390, Issue 6661, 1997, Pages 676-680

  Forte, Alessandro M ^a   Mitrovica, Jerry X ^b  

^a INSTITUT DE PHYSIQUE DU GLOBE DE PARIS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONVECTION; MANTLE; OBLIQUITY; PLANETARY ROTATION; PRECESSION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; CLIMATE; PHYSICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMODYNAMICS;

EID: 0031443895     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/37769     Document Type: Article

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