Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyper
glac/time1/milankov.htm
Axial tilt
• Angle between Earth's rotational axis and the
normal to plane of its orbit changes from 21.5
degrees to 24.5 degrees and back again on a
41,000 year cycle
http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/time1/milankov.htm
Insolation
(INcident SOLar radiATION)
• Influence of cycles
calculated by Berger
(1991) and Laskar
(1993)