Arctic drainage of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater throughout the past 14,700 years

A strong outflow event from Lake Agassiz at the end of the Bølling-Allerød plausibly caused the Younger Dryas cold period by an abrupt Arctic freshening, according to geochemical investigation of sediment cores from the Canadian Arctic.

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Communications Earth & Environment
Main Authors: Finn Süfke, Marcus Gutjahr, Lloyd D. Keigwin, Brendan Reilly, Liviu Giosan, Jörg Lippold
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022
Subjects:
geo
anthro-bio
Arctic
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00428-3
https://doaj.org/article/a0c8c68e612a4d3db33b73a07abca5cf
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Summary:A strong outflow event from Lake Agassiz at the end of the Bølling-Allerød plausibly caused the Younger Dryas cold period by an abrupt Arctic freshening, according to geochemical investigation of sediment cores from the Canadian Arctic.

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