Binge/purge oscillations of the Laurentide ice sheet as a cause of the North Atlantic Heinrich events

• Main Author: D. R. Macayeal
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1993
• Subjects: Hudson; Hudson Strait; West Antarctica; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.419.8268; http://www.seas.harvard.edu/climate/seminars/pdfs/MacAyeal_1993_Paleoceonography.pdf

Abstract. Ice-rafted debris in sediment cores from the North Atlantic suggests that the Laurentide ice sheet (LIS) periodically disgorged icebergs in brief but violent episodes which occurred approximately every 7,000 years. Here, I propose that Heinrich events (i.e., what these episodes are called)...