The geological record contains evidence of how Earth's climate responded to periodic changes in our planet's orbit and rotation. An investigation reveals how this record can be leveraged to constrain estimates of past climate dynamics.
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Meyers, S. Cracking the palaeoclimate code. Nature 546, 219–220 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/nature22501
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