Pleistocene glacial terminations triggered by synchronous changes in Southern and Northern Hemisphere insolation: The insolation canon hypothesis

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 249, Issue 3-4, 2006, Pages 326-336

  Schulz, K G ^a   Zeebe, R E ^b  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

glacial terminations; insolation; Northern Hemisphere; Southern Hemisphere

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL TERMINATIONS; INSOLATION CANON; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

CLIMATOLOGY; GLACIERS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEGLACIATION; GLACIATION LIMIT; INSOLATION; INTERGLACIAL; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PALEOCLIMATE; PLEISTOCENE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

EID: 33749069065     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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