Ice-driven CO<sub>2</sub> feedback on ice volume

The origin of the major ice-sheet variations during the last 2.7 million years is a long-standing mystery. Neither the dominant 41 000-year cycles in &delta;<sup>18</sup>O/ice-volume during the late Pliocene and early Pleistocene nor the late-Pleistocene oscillations near 100 000 yea...

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Main Author: W. F. Ruddiman
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2006-01-01
Series:Climate of the Past
Online Access:http://www.clim-past.net/2/43/2006/cp-2-43-2006.pdf