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Top 5 GeoLog posts of 2020!

January 1, 2021
Top 5 GeoLog posts of 2020!
Sunrise at Mount Fuji . Credit: Kaifeng Yu (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)

Happy New Year!!   2020 has been a pretty relentless and turbulent year – and a lot has happened. Here at EGU headquarters (currently spread across our staff’s several homes) we all know how much we owe to you, our members, followers and friends, this year, through all the highs and the lows. We honestly could not have made it through without our wonderful community – and yo ...[Read More]

Using Milankovitch Cycles to create high-resolution astrochronologies

November 20, 2020
Using Milankovitch Cycles to create high-resolution astrochronologies
Image credit: Lon Abbott and Terri Cook

This year marks the 100th anniversary of Milutin Milankovitch’s first paper about Earth’s climate. Milankovitch argued that the amount of solar radiation Earth receives, and hence its climate, varies cyclically as its orbit changes due to gravitational tugs from the other planets. His climate theory fell into disrepute during the 1950’s but was rehabilitated in the 1970’s.   Today, many peopl ...[Read More]