Earth’s tilt angle key trigger for ending ice ages
International research covering the past million years of global glaciations shows that small changes in the tilt of the Earth’s axis – obliquity – is important for triggering the end of ice ages, or glacial terminations.
The study, published in the journal Science, challenges previous contentions that precession – rotational changes that govern when the Earth is closest to the Sun – is most important.
Published by Cosmos.
