Marine evidence for climatic instability during the last interglacial in shelf records from northwest Europe

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Seidenkrantz, Marit‐Solveig, Kristensen, Peter, Knudsen, Karen Luise
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1995
• Subjects: Greenland; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3390100108; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.3390100108; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.3390100108

Abstract Data from the Greenland ice sheet and continental records from Europe have indicated climatic fluctuations during the last interglacial (Eemian: Oxygen Isotope Substage 5e). Similar fluctuations have not, however, been documented previously from marine environments. Here, we show the existence of two cold events during substage 5e in two marine, benthic foraminiferal, shelf records from northwest Europe and suggest that these cooling events are a result of fluctuations in the strength of the North Atlantic surface‐water circulation.