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: 2005
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; Canadian Arctic Archipelago; M'Clintock; M'Clintock Channel; M'Clure Strait; Melville Sound; Prince of Wales Island; Viscount Melville Sound; Arctic Archipelago; Banks Island; Climate change; Fram Strait; Ice Sheet; Iceberg*; Victoria Island
• Online Access: https://centaur.reading.ac.uk/4130/

Rapidly-flowing sectors of an ice sheet (ice streams) can play ail important role in abrupt climate change through tile delivery of icebergs and meltwater and tile Subsequent disruption of ocean thermohaline circulation (e.g., the North Atlantic's Heinrich events). Recently, several cores have...