Multiproxy paleoceanographic study from the western Barents Sea reveals dramatic Younger Dryas onset followed by oscillatory warming trend

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Łącka, Magdalena, Michalska, Danuta, Pawłowska, Joanna, Szymańska, Natalia, Szczuciński, Witold, Forwick, Matthias, Zajączkowski, Marek
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Nature 2020
• Subjects: climate change; paleoceanography; Barents Sea; Svalbard; Younger Dryas; Storfjordrenna; vivianite; marine sediments; polar research; marine geology; sedimentology; sea ice; 14C; foraminifera; mineralogy; geochemistry; oceanic circulation; anoxia; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10593/25797

The Younger Dryas (YD) is recognized as a cool period that began and ended abruptly during a time of general warming at the end of the last glacial. New multi-proxy data from a sediment gravity core from Storfjordrenna (western Barents Sea, 253 m water depth) reveals that the onset of the YD occurre...