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By the end of the nineteenth century it was recognized that during the Pleistocene the earth had undergone at least four major ice ages, and a search was underway for a mechanism that would alter climate so dramatically (useful historical summaries are given by Berger, 1988; Imbrie, 1985; Huggett, 1991, Sect. 2.3; Dott, 1992a, b; de Boer and Smith, 1994b). Continued stratigraphic work during the twentieth century produced evidence for many more cycles of ice formation, advance and melting, and it is now known that there were more than twenty such cycles, indicating successive major fluctuations in global climate.
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Miall, A.D. (2010). Orbital Forcing. In: The Geology of Stratigraphic Sequences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-05027-5_11
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