Isotopic composition and lithic grains concentration of sediment core SI90-09 ...

• Main Authors: Grousset, Francis E, Cortijo, Elsa, Huon, Sylvain, Herve, Laurence, Richter, Thomas, Burdloff, Didier, Duprat, Josette M, Weber, Oliver
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2001
• Subjects: Piston corer; PALEOCINAT; Le Suroît; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.846660; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.846660

Theories explaining the origin of the abrupt, massive discharges of ice-rafted detritus (IRD) into the glacial North Atlantic (the Heinrich layers (HLs)) generally point to the Laurentide ice sheet as the sole source of these events, until it was found that the IRDs also originated from Icelandic an...