A Possible Younger Dryas Record in Southeastern Alaska

• Published in: Science
• Main Authors: Engstrom, D. R., Hansen, B. C. S., Wright, H. E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) 1990
• Subjects: Glacier Bay; Parkland; glacier; North Atlantic; Tundra; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.250.4986.1383; https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/science.250.4986.1383

A stratigraphic record of climatic cooling equal in timing and severity to the Younger Dryas event of the North Atlantic region has been obtained from lacustrine sediments in the Glacier Bay area of southeastern Alaska. Fossil pollen show that a late Wisconsin pine parkland was replaced about 10,800...