Heinrich events: Massive late pleistocene detritus layers of the North Atlantic and their global climate imprint

• Published in: Reviews of Geophysics
• Main Author: Hemming, Sidney R.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Amer Geophysical Union 2004
• Subjects: relig; envir; Bay Lake; Hudson; Hudson Bay; Hudson Strait; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1029/2003RG000128; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00224/33549/32033.pdf; https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00224/33549/

Millennial climate oscillations of the glacial interval are interrupted by extreme events, the so-called Heinrich events of the North Atlantic. Their near-global footprint is a testament to coherent interactions among Earth's atmosphere, oceans, and cryosphere on millennial timescales. Heinrich...