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Subject: Orbital Forcing
Category: Science > Earth Sciences
Asked by: mattchapman-ga
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Posted: 04 Sep 2006 16:42 PDT
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Question ID: 762217
Orbital forcing conditions most conductive to glaciation are:
a) Minimum obliquity, high eccentricity & Northern Hemisphere summer at perihelion
b) Maximum obliquity, low eccentricity & Northern Hemisphere summer at aphelion
c) Maximum obliquity, low eccentricity & Northern Hemisphere summer at perihelion
d) Minimum obliquity, high eccentricity & northern Hemisphere summer at aphelion
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Subject: Re: Orbital Forcing
From: redhoss-ga on 04 Sep 2006 19:20 PDT
 
I would say (b).
Subject: Re: Orbital Forcing
From: ansel001-ga on 16 Sep 2006 04:02 PDT
 
I would say (d).

Please see the following link about the Milankovitch cycles.

http://www.homepage.montana.edu/~geol445/hyperglac/time1/milankov.htm

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