Late Pleistocene ice export events into the Arctic Ocean from the M'Clure Strait Ice Stream, Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

• Published in: Global and Planetary Change
• Main Authors: Stokes, C.R., Clark, C.D., Darby, D.A., Hodgson, D.A.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2005
• Subjects: Ice stream; Laurentide Ice Sheet; Arctic Ocean; Iceberg rafted detritus (IRD); Arctic; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; Prince of Wales Island; M'Clintock; Melville Sound; Viscount Melville Sound; M'Clure Strait; M'Clintock Channel; Arctic Archipelago; Banks Island; Climate change; Fram Strait; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Victoria Island
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/2799/; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gloplacha.2005.06.001

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...