Data from Cruise Healy 1302 along the Beaufort Margin

• Main Authors: Lloyd Keigwin, Neal Driscoll
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Arctic Data Center 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Southern Ocean; Arctic Ocean; Mackenzie River; Canada; Greenland; Glacial Lake; Kongsberg; Scripps; Knudsen; Amundsen Gulf; Archipelago; Barrow; Beaufort Sea; Canadian Archipelago; Dryas octopetala; Fram Strait; glacier; glacier*; Ice Sheet; Mackenzie river; Nordic Seas; North Atlantic; Sea ice; Alaska
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.18739/A2FB4WK7X

We conducted a survey along the Beaufort margin to investigate the origin of the Younger Dryas cooling that began about 13,000 years ago. For decades this cold event has been associated with sea ice in the Arctic and North Atlantic Oceans, and the storage and release of fresh water from a large glac...