700,000 years of tropical Andean glaciation - Nature.com

7/13/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago

Analysis of a continuous and independently dated record of glaciation in the tropical Andes spanning 700,000 years shows that Andean glaciation follows patterns of global ice volume change, with a periodicity of approximately 100,000 years.

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