An oblique view of climate

被引:5
作者
Bills, BG [1 ]
机构
[1] NASA, Goddard Space Flight Ctr, Geodynam Branch, Scripps Inst Oceanog,Inst Geophys & Planetary Phy, Greenbelt, MD 20771 USA
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10.1038/24711
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O [数理科学和化学]; P [天文学、地球科学]; Q [生物科学]; N [自然科学总论];
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07 ; 0710 ; 09 ;
摘要
One explanation for certain patterns of glaciation in the past invokes a large and comparatively swift decline in the tilt, or obliquity, of the Earth. A provocative hypothesis provides a mechanism by which such a decline could have occurred.
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页码:405 / 406
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