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Nature 396, 405-406 (3 December 1998) | doi:10.1038/24711

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An oblique view of climate

Bruce G. Bills1

One explanation for certain patterns of glaciation in the past invokes a large and comparatively swift decline in the tilt, or obliquity, of the Earth. A provocative hypothesis provides a mechanism by which such a decline could have occurred.

  1. Bruce G. Bills, currently at the Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, is in the Geodynamics Branch, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Mailstop 921.0, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
    e-mail: Email: bills@denali.gsfc.nasa.gov