Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Buried iceberg scours reveal reduced North Atlantic Current during the stage 12 deglacial

  • Andrew M. W. Newton,
  • Mads Huuse,
  • Simon H. Brocklehurst

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10927
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Reconstructing past ocean conditions, particularly current velocity, is difficult due to a lack of available proxies. Here, the authors present a set of well-preserved buried iceberg scours from the mid-Norwegian slope, from which they are able to infer North Atlantic current speeds during the third-last glacial.