Palaeomagnetism of beach ridges in South Australia and the Milankovitch theory of ice ages

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Aug 1980

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Nature, Volume 286, Issue 5774, pp. 699-702 (1980).

Physics

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Although the Pleistocene glaciations continue to attract new explanations1-3, an early explanation in terms of secular variations of the Earth's orbital elements, the Milankovitch theory4, has recently gained considerable support5,6. This theory predicts insolation variations with periodicities of ~20,000, 40,000 and 100,000 yr. Its popularity is attributable mostly to deep-sea sediment information on variations of the glaciation-sensitive 16O/18O isotopic ratio and the increasingly convincing match of those variations to the Milankovitch climatic curves7-9. Independently, land-based evidence is accumulating in favour of the Milankovitch theory from raised coral terrace10, loess11, and pollen studies12. We discuss here evidence for the Milankovitch theory from a South Australian sea-level record.

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