Ice ages and the Galaxy
Abstract
The passage of the Solar System through a dust lane bordering a spiral arm of the Galaxy may cause a temporary variation of the Sun's radiation and so lead to an ice epoch on Earth.
- Publication:
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Nature
- Pub Date:
- June 1975
- DOI:
- 10.1038/255607a0
- Bibcode:
- 1975Natur.255..607M
- Keywords:
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- Cold Weather;
- Cosmic Dust;
- Cosmology;
- Milky Way Galaxy;
- Astronomical Models;
- Earth Surface;
- Glaciology;
- Hydrogen Clouds;
- Hypotheses;
- Ice Formation;
- Planetary Evolution;
- Solar System;
- Spiral Galaxies;
- Astrophysics