Establishment of modern circulation pattern at c. 6000 cal a BP in Disko Bugt, central West Greenland: opening of the Vaigat Strait

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: PERNER, KERSTIN, MOROS, MATTHIAS, SNOWBALL, IAN, LLOYD, JEREMY M., KUIJPERS, ANTOON, RICHTER, THOMAS
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Subjects: Greenland; Vaigat; Disko bugt; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2638; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.2638; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.2638

ABSTRACT Variations in the Holocene circulation of the West Greenland Current (WGC) in the Disko Bugt region have been reconstructed from a suite of sediment cores. Palaeoceanographic proxies include magnetic susceptibility (MS) and X‐ray fluorescence titanium counts, which document a major shift in...