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Milankovitch hypothesis
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Milankovitch hypothesis

Combination of factors governing the occurrence of ice ages proposed in 1930 by the Yugoslav geophysicist M Milankovitch (1879-1958). These include the variation in the angle of the Earth's axis, and the geometry of the Earth's orbit around the Sun.



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