Heinrich event-0 (DC-0) in sediment cores from the northwest Labrador Sea: recording events in Cumberland Sound?

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences
• Main Author: Kirby, Matthew E
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 1998
• Subjects: General Earth and Planetary Sciences; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Cumberland Sound; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/e97-119; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/e97-119

Layers of ice-rafted, limestone debris rich sediment were deposited in the northwest Labrador Sea and the North Atlantic during the last glacial period (10-80 ka); these sediments were deposited by Heinrich events (H), events which record catastrophic collapses of the Laurentide Ice Sheet in the reg...