Response of interior North America to abrupt climate oscillations in the North Atlantic region during the last deglaciation

• Main Authors: Zicheng Yu A, H. E. Wright Jr. B
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2000
• Subjects: Boa; Crawford; Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.622.4599; http://www.lehigh.edu/~ziy2/pubs/Yu2001ESR.pdf

Several broad-scale climatic oscillations during the last deglaciation are well documented in regions around the North Atlantic Ocean. This paper reviews empirical evidence for these deglacial climatic oscillations from non-coastal North America and discusses implications for testing climatic simulations and for understanding the cause and transmittal mechanisms. Paleoclimatic interpretation of oxygen-isotope records from several small sites in the eastern Great Lakes region indicates a classic deglacial climatic sequence that is comparable with records from Europe and Greenland. The Ž.climatic events as interpreted from Crawford Lake oxygen isotopes include the Bølling–Allerød BOA warming at