Rhythms of Banded Glacial Clays of the Paleoproterozoic (~2 Ga Ago) and Modern Cycles of Solar Activity

Pleiades Publishing Ltd - Tập 59 - Trang 1042-1047 - 2020
P. B. Dmitriev1, V. A. Dergachev1, M. I. Tyasto2
1Ioffe Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia
2St. Petersburg Branch of the Pushkov Institute of Earth Magnetism, Ionosphere, and Propagation of Radio Waves, Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

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Paleoclimatic data from a sequence of argillite deposits of the Gowganda Formation located in the Mississagi River Valley (southern Ontario Province, Canada) covering a time interval of 256 years with a time resolution of one year are studied to research possible variations of the Earth’s climate in the Paleoproterozoic (~2 Ga ago). The following quasi-periodic variations have been found via the construction of a combined spectral periodogram: 3, 5, 11, 14, 29, and 75 years (at significance levels of the respective estimated values of magnitudes ranging from 2σ to 4σ). This may indicate the possible influence of solar activity on climate changes in the geological past.

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