Early During the Neogene Ice Age, Glacial Oscillations Corresponded to the __________

question 20

Multiple Choice

Early during the Neogene ice age, glacial oscillations corresponded to the __________ cycle of Earth's axis of rotation, but beginning about 850,000 years ago, glacial oscillations began to follow a new periodicity related to the __________ cycle.

• A) eccentricity; obliquity
• B) obliquity; eccentricity
• C) obliquity; precession
• D) precession; obliquity

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Definitions:

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Amplitude-modulated System

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Oxytocin

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