Milankovitch cycles describe the collective effects of changes in the Earth's movements on its climate over thousands of years. The term was coined and...
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Orbital forcing (redirect from Milankovitch Forcing)
Earth's axis and shape of the Earth's orbit around the Sun (see Milankovitch cycles). These orbital changes modify the total amount of sunlight reaching...
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Milutin Milanković (redirect from Milutin Milankovitch)
the position of the Earth in comparison to the Sun, now known as Milankovitch cycles. This partly explained the ice ages occurring in the geological past...
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Supercontinent (section Milankovitch cycles)
studies of the Milankovitch cycles during supercontinent time periods have focused on the mid-Cretaceous. Present amplitudes of Milankovitch cycles over present-day...
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Mesoamerican calendars – Metonic cycle – Milankovitch cycles – Mira – Moon – Nutation – Orbit – Orbital period – Saros cycle – Sothic cycle – Secularity – Sidereal...
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Holocene climatic optimum (section Milankovitch cycles)
was probably a result of predictable changes in the Earth's orbit (Milankovitch cycles) and a continuation of changes that caused the end of the last glacial...
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Pleistocene (section Milankovitch cycles)
climate changes. The main factor at work in climate cycling is now believed to be Milankovitch cycles. These are periodic variations in regional and planetary...
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Late Paleozoic icehouse (section Milankovitch cycles)
confused with shorter term cycles of glacials and interglacials that are driven by astronomical forcing caused by Milankovitch cycles. According to Eyles and...
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Quaternary glaciation (section Astronomical cycles)
irregularities in Earth's orbit could cause the climatic cycles now known as Milankovitch cycles. They are the result of the additive behavior of several...
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cyclic growth and decay of continental ice sheets related to the Milankovitch cycles and the associated climate and environmental changes that they caused...
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parallel north Equator Tropic of Capricorn Antarctic Circle Axial tilt Milankovitch cycles "Obliquity of the Ecliptic and Arctic Circle Calculator". Retrieved...
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supporting this hypothesis of regular oceanic anoxic events governed by Milankovitch cycles. The MCE took place approximately 2.4 million years before the Cenomanian-Turonian...
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is also based on cycles of 19 solar years. A Small Maḥzor (Hebrew מחזור, pronounced [maχˈzor], meaning "cycle") is a 19-year cycle in the lunisolar calendar...
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Wuchiapingian has a numerical age of 259.8 ± 0.4 Ma. Evidence from Milankovitch cycles suggests that the length of an Earth day during this epoch was approximately...
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Climate variability and change (redirect from Climate cycles)
rotation, and precession of Earth's axis. Combined, these produce Milankovitch cycles which affect climate and are notable for their correlation to glacial...
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Serbian war commander 1605 Milankovitch, an asteroid Milankovič (lunar crater) Milankovič (Martian crater) Milankovitch cycles, periodic changes in the...
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23rd parallel south 24th parallel south Antarctic Circle Axial tilt Milankovitch cycles Capricornus The Cook Islands, Tokelau and Niue, which are part of...
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by the Serbian geophysicist Milutin Milanković and now known as Milankovitch cycles, include the axial tilt of Earth, the orbital eccentricity (or shape...
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Calendar (redirect from Time cycles)
their effect on cycles of religious activity. A full calendar system has a different calendar date for every day. Thus the week cycle is by itself not...
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traditional calendar calendars used the sexagenary cycle-based ganzhi system's mathematically repeating cycles of Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches.[citation...
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: 202 The Sothic cycle is a specific example of two cycles of differing length interacting to cycle together, here called a tertiary cycle. This is mathematically...
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seasons and is likely a factor in long-term climatic change (also see Milankovitch cycles). The exact angular value of the obliquity is found by observation...
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anomalistic and tropical cycle is important in the long-term climate variations on Earth, called the Milankovitch cycles. Milankovitch cycles are central to understanding...
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astronomically forced climate cycles within sedimentary successions. Astronomical cycles (also known as Milankovitch cycles) are variations of the Earth's...
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Ice age (redirect from Glacial cycle)
inland ice areas. The Milankovitch cycles are a set of cyclic variations in characteristics of Earth's orbit around the Sun. Each cycle has a different length...
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diagenetic fluids of contrasting composition are mixed as a response to Milankovitch cycles. A recent biotic synthetic experiment claims to have precipitated...
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and other orbital factors, which follow cyclical patterns known as Milankovitch cycles. In the short term, such dates can vary up to 2 days from one year...
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Glacials and interglacials refer to the 100,000-year cycles associated with Milankovitch cycles, and stadials and interstadials are defined by the actual...
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100,000-year problem (section Precession cycles)
100,000-year problem (also 100 ky problem or 100 ka problem) of the Milankovitch theory of orbital forcing refers to a discrepancy between the reconstructed...
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Last Glacial Period (redirect from Last glacial cycle)
years, the glacial-interglacial cycles have been "paced" by periodic variations in the Earth's orbit via Milankovitch cycles. The LGP has been intensively...
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