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

Finn Süfke; Marcus Gutjahr; Lloyd D. Keigwin; Brendan Reilly; Liviu Giosan; Jörg Lippold

doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00428-3

Communications Earth & Environment (Apr 2022)

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

Finn Süfke,
Marcus Gutjahr,
Lloyd D. Keigwin,
Brendan Reilly,
Liviu Giosan,
Jörg Lippold

Affiliations

Finn Süfke: Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University
Marcus Gutjahr: GEOMAR Helmholtz Center for Ocean Research Kiel
Lloyd D. Keigwin: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Brendan Reilly: Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego
Liviu Giosan: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
Jörg Lippold: Institute of Earth Sciences, Heidelberg University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00428-3
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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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.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
Website: https://www.nature.com/commsenv/

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