Tag: Milankovitch cycles
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Orbital Clues: How Earth’s Orbit Could Guide Oil Exploration in Shale Formations
Introduction: A surprisingly celestial guide to earthly hydrocarbons Oil exploration has always relied on a combination of geological mapping, geophysical surveys, and geochemical signals. In recent years, researchers have begun to look beyond the immediate rock record and consider how long-term Earth processes, including the planet’s orbit around the Sun, might leave subtle but useful…
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Climate Comeback: How Earth Exited the Last Ice Age
Introduction: A World Cooling and Then Awakening Around 20,000 years ago, Earth faced a dramatic chill. Global temperatures were about 10 degrees Fahrenheit cooler than today, and much of North America wore a thick blanket of ice. Some regions saw ice nearly half a mile high, creating a landscape of plains, fjords, and channels carved…