Multiproxy paleoceanographic study from the western Barents Sea reveals dramatic Younger Dryas onset followed by oscillatory warming trend

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Łącka, Magdalena, Michalska, Danuta, Pawłowska, Joanna, Szymańska, Natalia, Szczuciński, Witold, Forwick, Matthias, Zajączkowski, Marek
• Other Authors: National Science Centre in Poland
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media LLC 2020
• Subjects: Multidisciplinary; Barents Sea; Storfjordrenna; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-72747-4; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72747-4.pdf; https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-72747-4

Abstract The Younger Dryas (YD) is recognized as a cool period that began and ended abruptly during a time of general warming at the end of the last glacial. New multi-proxy data from a sediment gravity core from Storfjordrenna (western Barents Sea, 253 m water depth) reveals that the onset of the Y...