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Milankovitch Cycles
And the Age of the Earth
Sean D. Pitman, MD
© July 2006
 
Table of Contents
 
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Introduction
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Devils Hole
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A Few More Problems
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Playing the Right Tune
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Correlation with Tree Ring Dating
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Milutin Milankovitch was a Serbian engineer and meteorologist - born in 1879 heattended the Vienna institute of technology graduating in 1904 with a doctorate intechnical sciences. He then went on to work in the University of Belgrade where hespent time working on a mathematical theory of climate based on the seasonal andlatitudinal variations of solar radiation received by the Earth.Milankovitch proposed that the changes in the intensity of solar radiation receivedfrom the Earth were effected by three fundamental factors. The first is calledeccentricity, a period of about 100,000 years in which the nearly circular orbit of theEarth changes into a more elliptical orbit. The next factor is called obliquity, a period of about 41,000 years where the Earth's axis tilt varies between 21.5 and 24.5 degrees.The final factor is called precession, a period of approximately 23,000 years where theEarth's axis wobbles like a spinning top.
 
 
 
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