Late Pleistocene ice export events into the Arctic Ocean from the M'Clure Strait Ice Stream, Canadian Arctic Archipelago.
Rapidly-flowing sectors of an ice sheet (ice streams) can play an important role in abrupt climate change through the delivery of icebergs and meltwater and the subsequent disruption of ocean thermohaline circulation (e.g., the North Atlantic's Heinrich events). Recently, several cores have bee...
Published in: | Global and Planetary Change |
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Main Authors: | , , , |
Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
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Elsevier
2005
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Online Access: | http://dro.dur.ac.uk/2799/ https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.06.001 |