Long-period Milankovitch cycles from the Late Triassic and Early Jurassic of eastern North America and their implications for the calibration of the Early Mesozoic time-scale and the long-term behaviour of the planets

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 357, Issue 1757, 1999, Pages 1761-1786

  Olsen, Paul E ^a   Kent, Dennis V ^a,b  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Chaos; Climate; Cyclicity; Milankovitch; Triassic

Indexed keywords

EID: 0346968484     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.1999.0400     Document Type: Article

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