#Sanidine from the Fish Canyon Tuff is essential to understanding the pace of events in the #Cenozoic
High potassium, quickly erupted and cooled, and old enough to have accumulated sufficient 40Ar from radioactive decay. These crystals calibrate neutron flux for 40Ar/39Ar dating. The 28.2 Ma age of the FCT sanidine has been fine-tuned using #Milankovitch cycles of other ash beds in stable sedimentary basins.
photo from MinDat.org by Dan Polhemus
Cyclostratigraphy of late Cambrian marine sedimentary records and reconstruction of Earth-Moon system parameters
#cyclostratigraphy #astronomy #paleoclimate #Milankovitch #Moon
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0031018224004371
I went looking for 'Earth orbital precession' and instead landed on this gem of a page.
If you stumble on a climate denier trying to splurge out some 'natural cycles' bilge, just send them here.
Save The Coal
It is good that we are reducing coal-burning. It is important that we don't waste it because we are going to need it. Of course, there's the point of reducing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to curtail warming. We certainly don't want to change the temperature of the atmosphere to the point where the climate reg
https://greencomet.org/2023/06/28/save-the-coal/
#astronomy #climate #iceages #milankovitch #science #seasons #space #weather
I love the answers by scientists in this @arstechnica piece about #ClimateCycles (ht @andrewdessler ), but it's also a really great introduction to the effects of #Volcanoes #ENSO, #GlacialCycles #milankovitch etc on the climate system...