Geochemical proxies of North American freshwater routing during the Younger Dryas cold event

• Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
• Main Authors: Carlson, Anders E., Clark, Peter U., Haley, Brian, Klinkhammer, Gary P., Simmons, Kathleen, Brook, Edward J., Meissner, Katrin J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: National Academy of Sciences 2007
• Subjects: Canada; Lawrence River; Planktonic foraminifera
• Online Access: https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/6040/; https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/6040/1/Carlson_PNAS.pdf; http://www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.0611313104; https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0611313104

The Younger Dryas cold interval represents a time when much of the Northern Hemisphere cooled from �12.9 to 11.5 kiloyears B.P. The cause of this event, which has long been viewed as the canonical example of abrupt climate change, was initially attributed to the routing of freshwater to the St. Lawr...