Chapter List
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1. From Galileo to Milankovich, a bit of history
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11. How the Milankovitch hypothesis failed
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2. Sediment cores from the deep ocean
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12. Triggering the last Ice Age
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3. Accurate calculations of insolation
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13. Terminating the last Ice Age
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4. Glacial-ice volumes and sealevels
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14. Heinrich event dynamics
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5. A heyday for Milankovitch
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15. A neo-Milankovitch hypothesis
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6. Doubts
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16. Threshold clues from the Norse sagas
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7. Decisive contradictions
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17. Handwriting on the wall
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8. Where the storms go
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18. An Ice Age prologue
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9. A little conveyor-belt oceanography
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Appendix A: Astronomical basics
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10. Why the Mediterranean is what it is
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Appendix B: The bipolar seesaw
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