The 41 kyr world: Milankovitch's other unsolved mystery

Paleoceanography

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Raymo, Maureen E ^a   Nisancioglu, Kerim ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ice ages; Milankovitch; Obliquity; Orbital variations; Paleoclimate; Pleistocene

Indexed keywords

MILANKOVITCH CYCLE; OBLIQUITY; ORBITAL FORCING; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE;

EID: 0038163518     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002pa000791     Document Type: Article

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