Glacial Cycles On Earth Intensified A Million Years Ago, And Now We May Know Why
The world we live in is greatly mold by an result called theMid - Pleistocene Transition(MPT ) during which the dominant climate cycle lengthened and intensified . Instead of break in ice eld occurring every 41,000 yr , they set about to take place every 100,000 years and the long cold spells catch even colder . Modern evidence pins the blame on a surprising defendant : erosion of North Atlantic continental ledge ....