Sediment dynamics during Heinrich event H1 inferred from grain size

• Main Author: deGelleke, Laura
• Other Authors: Department of Oceanography, Master of Science, John C. Gosse, Dan E. Kelley, David J. W. Piper, Timothy G. Milligan, Paul S. Hill and Markus Kienast, Not Applicable
• Language: English
• Published: 2011
• Subjects: marine sediment; Heinrich event H1; grain size; Coulter; Hudson; Hudson Strait; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/13988

Throughout the last glacial period, massive volumes of icebergs were discharged periodically from the Hudson Strait region during so-called Heinrich (H) events depositing sediments in distinct layers across the North Atlantic as they melted. The objective of this research was to measure and describe...