Palaeobiological evidence for Southern Hemisphere Younger Dryas and volcanogenic cold periods

• Main Author: Holdaway, Richard N.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Moa; New Zealand; Takahe; The Antarctic; Antarc*; Antarctica
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/cp-2021-154; https://cp.copernicus.org/preprints/cp-2021-154/

Current consensus places a Southern Hemisphere post-glacial cooling episode earlier than the Younger Dryas in the Northern Hemisphere. New Zealand sequences of glacial moraines and speleothem isotopic data are generally interpreted as supporting the absence of a Southern Hemisphere Younger Dryas. Ra...