Nature Communications (Apr 2021)

A reconciled solution of Meltwater Pulse 1A sources using sea-level fingerprinting

  • Yucheng Lin,
  • Fiona D. Hibbert,
  • Pippa L. Whitehouse,
  • Sarah A. Woodroffe,
  • Anthony Purcell,
  • Ian Shennan,
  • Sarah L. Bradley

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21990-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Meltwater Pulse 1A was the most rapid global sea-level rise event during the last deglaciation, but the source of the freshwater causing this rise is debated. Here, the authors use a data-driven inversion approach to show that the North American and Eurasian Ice Sheets were the dominant contributors.