2015_june Booklet A Part B Q21 📚 Earth Science - Paleoclimatology (Milankovitch cycles)
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Question 21

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Milankovitch cycles: eccentricity (~100,000 yr), obliquity/axial tilt (~41,000 yr), and precession (~23,000 yr, with a ~19,000 yr component) periodicities.
Of the three main Milankovitch cycles, the precession of the equinoxes (wobble of Earth's rotational axis) has a periodicity of about 23,000 years (composed of...

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