Milankovitch solar radiation variations and ice age ice sheet sizes (original) (raw)

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The fluctuations in the size of ice age ice sheets are calculated using glacier mechanics and the Milankovitch solar radiation variations. The calculations are greatly simplified by considering only two-dimensional ice sheets with profiles that would be appropriate if ice obeyed the flow law of a perfectly plastic solid. The solar radiation variations seem to be large enough to account for ice ages.

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  1. Department of Materials Science & Engineering, and Department of Geological Sciences, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 60201
    Johannes Weertman

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Weertman, J. Milankovitch solar radiation variations and ice age ice sheet sizes.Nature 261, 17–20 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1038/261017a0

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