Arctic Ocean meltwater outflow as a trigger for the Younger Dryas event – a review of available evidence from sediment cores

• Main Authors: Spielhagen, Robert F., Nørgaard-Pedersen, Niels, Telesinski, Maciej
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Greenland; Peltier; Fram Strait; Greenland Sea; Lomonosov Ridge; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/27631/

The Younger Dryas event at ca. 12.8-11.5 ka was a severe fall-back to quasi-glacial conditions during the last glacial termination in much of the northern hemisphere. For more than a decade since the late 1980s the widely accepted theory was that this event was triggered by a major meltwater ejectio...