Age determination of sediment cores from the North Atlantic

• Main Authors: Bond, Gerard C, Showers, William J, Cheseby, Maziet, Lotti, Rusty, Almasi, Peter, deMenocal, Peter B, Priore, Paul, Cullen, Heidi, Hajdas, Irka, Bonani, Georges
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1997
• Subjects: EW9303-GGC36; GGC; Giant gravity corer; PC; Piston corer; V19; V19-30; V23; V23-81; V28; V28-14; V29; V29-191; Vema; Greenland; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.730042; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.730042

Evidence from North Atlantic deep sea cores reveals that abrupt shifts punctuated what is conventionally thought to have been a relatively stable Holocene climate. During each of these episodes, cool, ice-bearing waters from north of Iceland were advected as far south as the latitude of Britain. At...