Sentences with phrase «year precessional»
Should that trend due to the 24 k year precessional cycle be discounted in your view?
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The alignment of obliquity and eccentricity due to precession is a much stronger effect than for the Earth, leading to «great» summers and winters on time scales of tens of thousands of years (the precessional period is 170,000 years).
The alignment of obliquity and eccentricity due to precession is a much stronger effect than for the Earth, leading to «great» summers and winters on time scales of tens of thousands of years (the precessional period is 170,000 years).
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.
The average is more like 14 - 15 kyr (a precessional cycle, BTW, since you know all about Milankovich cycles), but the standard deviation is about 10,000 years.