Persistent influence of obliquity on ice age terminations since the Middle Pleistocene transition

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Bajo, P., Drysdale, R.N., Woodhead, J.D., Hellstrom, J.C., Hodell, D., Ferretti, P., Voelker, A.H.L., Zanchetta, G., Rodrigues, T., Wolff, E., Tyler, J., Frisia, S., Spötl, C., Fallick, A.E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2020
• Subjects: Silvia; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/2440/133277; https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaw1114

Radiometric dating of glacial terminations over the past 640,000 years suggests pacing by Earth's climatic precession, with each glacial-interglacial period spanning four or five cycles of ~20,000 years. However, the lack of firm age estimates for older Pleistocene terminations confounds attemp...