Late-Pleistocene Glacial and Climate Fluctuations in the Torres del Paine Region (51ºS), Southern South America

• Main Author: Garcia, Juan Luis
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: DigitalCommons@UMaine 2011
• Subjects: ice age cycles; Earth Sciences; Glaciology; Antarctic; The Antarctic; Patagonia; Paine; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/72; https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/context/etd/article/1072/viewcontent/GarciaJL2011.pdf

Variations in Earth‘s orbital parameters affect insolation and are thought to drive ice-age cycles (Milankovitch Theory). Northern and southern mid-latitudes show opposing insolation signals, because of the effect of precession. Despite this difference, paleoclimate records from both hemispheres dis...