Communications Earth & Environment (Oct 2020)

Deglacial to Holocene variability in surface water characteristics and major floods in the Beaufort Sea

  • Junjie Wu,
  • Ruediger Stein,
  • Kirsten Fahl,
  • Nicole Syring,
  • Seung-Il Nam,
  • Jens Hefter,
  • Gesine Mollenhauer,
  • Walter Geibert

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-020-00028-z
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 1, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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The Beaufort Sea was nearly ice-free during the transition from the last deglacial to the Holocene, a period in which two episodes of high sediment flux suggest major glacial flood events, according to high-resolution multi-proxy biomarker records.