The transition from the Younger Dryas to the Preboreal: a case study from the Kattegat, Scandinavia

• Published in: Boreas
• Main Authors: JIANG, HUI, KLINGBERG, FREDRIK
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 1996
• Subjects: Arctic; Kattegat; Fennoscandian; Foraminifera*; Ice Sheet; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1996.tb00644.x; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1996.tb00644.x; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1996.tb00644.x

A two‐step climatic warming and oceanographic change during the Younger Dryas/Preboreal transition was registered by diatom, foraminiferal, mollusc, lithologic data and sediment accumulation rates in a high resolution sediment core from the Swedish west coast. An abrupt climatic warming in the surfa...