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Paleo Slide Set: The Ice Ages
Glacier in East Coast Mountains of Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Northern hemisphere glacial and estimated sea ice coverage.
Southern hemisphere glacial and estimated sea ice coverage
Erratic, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Fjord, Baffin East Coast Mountains, Nunavut, Canada.
Striations on rock, Baffin Island, Nunavut, Canada.
Photograph of James Croll from J. C. Irons (1896)
Graphic of Earth's orbit adapted from Pisias and Imbrie [1986/1987].
Precession of Earth's orbit adapted from Pisias and Imbrie [1986/1987]
Earth's eccentricity adapted from Pisias and Imbrie [1986/1987]
Portrait of Milutin Milankovitch by Paja Jovanovic, 1943, courtesy of Vasko Milankovitch
Earth's axial tilt, adapted from Pisias and Imbrie [1986/1987]
Earth's insolation using data from Berger [1978]
A 10m-piston core being raised to the deck of the Hudson.
Marine sediment samples collected with a multicorer.
Photo of Helenina anderseni
Baoji section of the Loess Plateau, China
Climate forcing on glacial-interglacial timescales
Insolation and global ice volume fluctuations.
Remnant of the Ice Age
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