Ice Ages

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Ice Ages * Pleistocene 3 M.y. ¢ Permian 250-220 M.y. * Ordovician 450 M.y. ٠١ Precambrian - 900-650 M.y. (Snowball Earth) - 2300 7. 

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Interglacial Wisconsin | Wurm Vistula Varsovian Sangamon _|Uznach | Eem Masovian Tlinoisan Riss Warthe/ Cracovian Saale Yarmouth | Hoetting _| Holstein Sandomirian Kansan Mindel _| Elster Jaroslavian Aftonian Cromer Likhvin “Nebraskan “ | Gunz Menapian Waalian Donaull__|Weybourne Tiglian Donau I About 20 Glacial Advances Beginning of Pleistocene Dwarf forests still in Antarctica a ena a a ia a 0-18 18-67 67-128 128-180 180-230 230-300 300-330 330-470 470-540 540-550 550-585 585-600 600-2000 ‎M.Y.)‏ 2( 2000 ‎M.Y.)‏ 4( 4000 د يد جه 

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The Last 800,000 years 8150 Ka 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 700 0 

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7202009 8"O( Yoo) Beginni ‘I = 7 7 ng of 0 the Ice a0 Ages 25 ۱ / ۱ ۱ 1 Age (Ma) sanyo ‏اسب‎ ۶ 

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Milankovich Cycles Cool Summers More Important Than Cold Winters * Tilt of Axis * Shape of Orbit * Precession Can’t be the whole story-have operated throughout earth history 

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Axis Tilt ‎Small Axis Tilt: Mild winters but cool‏ و ‎summers. Favors Ice Age‏ ‎¢ Large Axis Tilt: Cold winters but hot summers. Favors Interglacial 

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Axis Tilt and the Incredible Shrinking Tropics * Earth’s Axis Tilt is Shrinking - 24.2 degrees 9,500 years ago - 23.4 degrees now - 22.6 degrees 10,200 years from now ۰ Tropics are shrinking - 14.7 m/year = 4 cm/day = 1.7 mm/hour * Temperate zones gain 1550 sq km/year - 1080 at the expense of tropics - 470 at the expense of Arctic and Antarctic 

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| 26,000 year cycle 

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Shape of Orbit + Pracaccinn es © ‏ر_‎ « #2 © 0 « * Summer at Perihelion (Eccentric Orbit) - Cold winters but hot summers. Favors Interglacial ¢ Summer at Aphelion (Eccentric Orbit) ¢ Near-circular Orbit - Mild winters but cool summers. Favors Ice Age 

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The Greenhouse Effect ¢ Without a natural Greenhouse Effect, earth would be frozen * 90% due to Water Vapor ¢ Other contributors: carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxides ¢ “A little Greenhouse Effect is a good thing” - Carl Sagan * Problem: we are accelerating it with unknown final consequences 

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The Carbonate-Silicate Cycle ¢ Earth has almost as much carbon dioxide as Venus * Volcanoes add carbon dioxide to the atmosphere * Carbon dioxide is removed from the air to make carbonate rocks * “Icehouse” and “Greenhouse” episodes 

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The Carbonate-Silicate Cycle Mountain-building favors cooling * Uplift exposes rocks to weathering * Calcium silicates (plagioclase, amphiboles, pyroxenes) are chemically weathered * Calcium is carried to the sea where organisms bind it into carbonate minerals * Creation of carbonates removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere ¢ Weathering of carbonates returns carbon dioxide to the atmosphere 

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The Carbonate-Silicate Cycle * Plate tectonics carries some carbonates into the earth ۰ Heat liberates carbon dioxide * Carbon dioxide returns to the atmosphere ¢ The cycle does not require life but does require liquid water. 

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The Snowball Earth * Between 900 and 600 m.y. ago, Earth froze completely (or almost) about four times * Global freezing alternated with extremely rapid sea-level rise and global warming ¢ Evidence: - Glacial deposits on all continents, even at low latitudes - Glacial deposits immediately succeeded by thick deposits of carbonate rocks 

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The Snowball Earth Possible reasons: ٠ Fainter early sun * Biological changes Global ice cover Weathering and erosion shut down Volcanoes continue to erupt CO, At 10% CO,, abrupt warming begins Go from -50 C to +50 C in 10,000 years? Implications for life? 

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What Causes Ice Ages? Within Earth (Endogenic) * Carbonate-Silicate Cycle * Volcanic Eruptions - Sudden output of CO, (warming) or particulates (cooling) ۰ Mountain Building - Changes in atmospheric circulation ¢ Continent-Ocean configuration Outside Earth (Exogenic) * Changes in Sun (faint early sun) ¢ Variations in Earth Orbit (Milankovitch Cycles) Don't Really Know 

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Are We Headed For Another Ice Age? Heating & Cooling in Historic Times Smoke, Haze, CO, May Alter Climate Don't Really Know Global warming due to fossil fuels may be catastrophic in many ways, but will probably not much affect these longer- term cycles. We will have run out of fossil fuels long before the duration of a typical interglacial. 

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