Sedimentology of the Reykjanes Ridge, Southeast Greenland ...
Marine records from the Reykjanes Ridge indicate ice sheet variations and abrupt climate changes. One of these records, ice-rafted detritus (IRD), serves as a proxy for iceberg discharges that probably indicates ice sheet fluctuations. The IRD records suggest that iceberg discharge 68,000-10,000 yr...
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
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PANGAEA
1998
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| Online Access: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.735768 https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.735768 |
| Summary: | Marine records from the Reykjanes Ridge indicate ice sheet variations and abrupt climate changes. One of these records, ice-rafted detritus (IRD), serves as a proxy for iceberg discharges that probably indicates ice sheet fluctuations. The IRD records suggest that iceberg discharge 68,000-10,000 yr B.P. happened more frequently than the 7000- to 10,000-yr spacing of the Heinrich events. An IRD peak 67,000 to 63,000 yr B.P. further suggests that the Middle Weichselian glaciation started about 12,000 yr earlier in the North Atlantic than in the Norwegian Sea. Several later IRD events, in contrast, correlate with Norwegian Sea IRD-rich layers and imply coeval ice sheet advances in the North Atlantic and the Norwegian Sea. Coccoliths in a core from the Reykjanes Ridge show distinct peaks in species that record occasional inflow of warm surface water during the last glaciation, as previously reported from the eastern Labrador Sea. High abundances of coccoliths, together with a decrease ofNeogloboquadrina ... : Supplement to: Lackschewitz, Klas Sven; Baumann, Karl-Heinz; Gehrke, B; Wallrabe-Adams, Hans-Joachim; Thiede, Jörn; Bonani, Georges; Endler, Rudolf; Erlenkeuser, Helmut; Heinemeier, Jan (1998): North Atlantic ice sheet fluctuations 10,000-70,000 yr ago as inferred from deposits on the Reykjanes Ridge, southeast of Greenland. Quaternary Research, 49(2), 171-182 ... |
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