Milankovitch cycles (orbital forcing)

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Milankovitch 1924: eccentricity (100k yr), obliquity (41k yr), precession (23k yr) drive ice-age cycles via N. hemisphere summer insolation; Hays-Imbrie-Shackleton 1976 ocean-core confirmation.

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