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Name: Milankovitch Cycles and the Climate of the Quaternary
ID: m38572
Language: English (en)
Summary: In this module, we will look at the recent natural changes in Earth’s climate, and we will use these drivers to understand why the climate has changed.
Subject: Science and Technology
Keywords: axial precession, axial tilt, eccentricity, environmental, glacial period, ice sheets, interglacial period, isotopes, last glacial maximum, milankovitch cycles, obliquity, proxy data, quaternary period, sustainability
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 3.0
Authors: Jonathan Tomkin (tgilles@uillinois.edu)
Copyright Holders: U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative (tgilles@uillinois.edu)
Maintainers: U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative (tgilles@uillinois.edu)
Latest version: 1.10 (history)
First publication date: Jun 21, 2011 9:20 am -0500
Last revision to module: Mar 7, 2012 3:17 pm -0600

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Version History

Version: 1.10 Mar 7, 2012 3:17 pm -0600 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
Changes: 
Bold Figure Title in "Eventually, a large proportion of the northern continents became covered in ice (Figure" 800pn Northern Icesheet (Figure 3.20))." and "As we observed in Figure Vostok Petit Data (Figure 3.16)," (MWL)
Version: 1.9 Mar 1, 2012 6:32 pm -0600 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
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1) TWICE change "section" to "module", 2)change "In the previous module" to "in Module Climate Processes; External and Internal Controls" 3) change "In this section" to "In this module" 4) unbold "Figure" 5) bold Figure Titles (MWL)
Version: 1.8 Mar 1, 2012 6:06 pm -0600 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
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1) fixed punctuation in resources (mwl)
Version: 1.7 Jan 18, 2012 9:50 am -0600 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
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Added Google Analytics tracking code
Version: 1.6 Dec 28, 2011 5:33 pm -0600 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
Changes: 
Converted figure labels from numerical to text and Reformated figure captions (mwl)
Version: 1.5 Jul 22, 2011 1:04 pm -0500 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
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added keywords; edited module-id (mwl)
Version: 1.4 Jul 1, 2011 12:56 pm -0500 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
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reduced image size (mwl)
Version: 1.3 Jun 23, 2011 3:40 pm -0500 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
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Corrected Author
Version: 1.2 Jun 21, 2011 4:31 pm -0500 by U of I Open Source Textbook Initiative
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Version: 1.1 Jun 21, 2011 4:21 pm -0500 by Michael Lindeman
Changes: 
Completed first full-source editing - mwl

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