Skip to main content

Thank you for visiting nature.com. You are using a browser version with limited support for CSS. To obtain the best experience, we recommend you use a more up to date browser (or turn off compatibility mode in Internet Explorer). In the meantime, to ensure continued support, we are displaying the site without styles and JavaScript.

  • Matters Arising
  • Published:

Effects of the Earth's rotation rate on climate

Nature volume 286, pages 309–310 (1980)Cite this article

Access through your institution
Buy or subscribe

This is a preview of subscription content, access via your institution

Access options

Access through your institution

Buy this article

  • Purchase on SpringerLink
  • Instant access to full article PDF
Buy now

Prices may be subject to local taxes which are calculated during checkout

References

  1. Hunt, B. G. Nature 281, 188–191 (1979).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  2. Pannella, G. Astrophys. Space Sci. 16, 212–237 (1972).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  3. Frakes, L. A. Climates Throughout Geologic Time (Elsevier, Amsterdam, 1979).

    Google Scholar 

  4. Williams, G. E. Megacycles: Long-Term Episodicity in Earth and Planetary History (Dowden, Hutchinson & Ross, Stroudsburg, in the press).

  5. Williams, G. E. Geol. Mag. 112, 441–465 (1975).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  6. Young, G. M. Am. J. Sci. 276, 366–370 (1976); Precambrian Res. 3, 137–158 (1976).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  7. Kröner, A. J. Geol. 85, 289–300 (1977).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

  8. McWilliams, M. O. (thesis, Australian National Univ. (1977); Trans. Am. geophys. Un. 59, 1061 (1978).

    Google Scholar 

  9. Morris, W. A. Geoology 5, 85–88 (1977).

    Article  ADS  Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. BHP Melbourne Research Laboratories, Clayton, Victoria, 3168, Australia

    G. E. WILLIAMS

Authors
  1. G. E. WILLIAMS
    View author publications

    Search author on:PubMed Google Scholar

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

WILLIAMS, G. Effects of the Earth's rotation rate on climate. Nature 286, 309–310 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1038/286309b0

Download citation

  • Issue date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/286309b0

Search

Advanced search

Quick links

Nature Briefing

Sign up for the Nature Briefing newsletter — what matters in science, free to your inbox daily.

Get the most important science stories of the day, free in your inbox. Sign up for Nature Briefing