Sentences with phrase «orbital forcing triggered»

I should have added that there is a hypothesis (DeConto et al. 2010) that orbital forcing triggered the PETM.

Not exact matches

Some workers believe that the strength of the orbital forcing is too small to trigger glaciations, but feedback mechanisms like CO2 may explain this mismatch.

Another fascinating question relates to the triggers for ice ages, which are generally thought to involve reduced summer insolation at 65 N as consequence of orbital forcing changes.

I have been thinking along these same lines (periodic orbital and precessional gravitational forces triggering plate tectonic activity) for over twenty years, although I must say that an effect from sea level variations hadn't occurred to me.

This 800 year lag between temperature and co2 rise only happens as a «trigger» to end the last ice age, due to orbital forcing.

Caused by ice formation resulting from a change in heat transport triggered by meltwater flux at high NH latitude initiated by orbital forcing; --RRB-