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On the Origin of the Ice Ages

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Milankovitch and Climate

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Ice sheet dynamics provide a possible explanation for the 100 kyr power in climatic records. Some numerical experiments presented here show that even the transition from an essentially ice-free earth to a glacial cycle regime can be produced by a northern hemisphere ice-sheet model, provided that a slow general cooling on the northern hemisphere continents is imposed. Such a cooling could for example be the result of continental drift.

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  1. Institute of Meteorology and Oceanography, University of Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands

    J. Oerlemans

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  1. Institut d’Astronomie et de Géophysique Georges Lemaitre, Université Catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

    A. Berger

  2. Department of Geological Sciences, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

    J. Imbrie

  3. Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, New York, USA

    J. Hays  & G. Kukla  & 

  4. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

    B. Saltzman

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Oerlemans, J. (1984). On the Origin of the Ice Ages. In: Berger, A., Imbrie, J., Hays, J., Kukla, G., Saltzman, B. (eds) Milankovitch and Climate. NATO ASI Series, vol 126. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-4841-4_9

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