Preboreal onset of cold-water coral growth beyond the Arctic Circle revealed by coupled radiocarbon and U-series dating and neodymium isotopes

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: López Correa, M., Montagna, P., Joseph, N., Rüggeberg, Andres, Fietzke, Jan, Flögel, Sascha, Dorschel, B., Goldstein, S. L., Wheeler, A., Freiwald, Andre
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2012
• Subjects: Arctic; Freed; Fennoscandian; Lophelia pertusa; north atlantic current; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/13792/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/13792/1/2012_LopezCorrea_eaFietzke_QSR_.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2011.12.005

Cold-water coral mounds of Lophelia pertusa are widespread across the Scandinavian shelf, which was completely ice-covered during the Last Glacial Maximum between 22 to 18 ka BP. Rapid deglacial meltdown of the Fennoscandian inland ice and the retreat of its ice-streams freed most of the shelf of ic...