IRD flux and supporting data on two cores in the western North Atlantic

• Main Authors: Zhou, Yuxin, McManus, Jerry F, Jacobel, Allison W, Costa, Kassandra M, Wang, Shouyi, Caraveo, Blanca Alvarez
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2020
• Subjects: Heinrich event; IRD flux; Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory; Columbia University; LDEO; thorium normalization; Western North Atlantic; Hudson; Hudson Strait; Ice Sheet; Labrador Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.911512; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.911512

A series of catastrophic iceberg discharges termed Heinrich events punctuated the last ice age in the North Atlantic. During Heinrich events, coarse terrigenous debris released from the drifting icebergs and preserved in deep-sea sediments serves as an indicator of their passage. Quantifying the ver...