• DOI:10.1038/360245A0
Corpus ID: 4339371

Evidence for massive discharges of icebergs into the North Atlantic ocean during the last glacial period

@article{Bond1992EvidenceFM,
  title={Evidence for massive discharges of icebergs into the North Atlantic ocean during the last glacial period},
  author={G. Bond and H. Heinrich and W. Broecker and L. Labeyrie and J. McManus and J. Andrews and S. Huon and R. Jantschik and S. Clasen and Christine Simet and K. Tedesco and M. Klas and G. Bonani and Susan Ivy},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1992},
  volume={360},
  pages={245-249}
}

• G. Bond, H. Heinrich, +11 authors Susan Ivy
• Published 1992
• Geology
• Nature

SEDIMENTS in the North Atlantic ocean contain a series of layers that are rich in ice-rafted debris and unusually poor in foraminifera1. Here we present evidence that the most recent six of these 'Heinrich layers', deposited between 14,000 and 70,000 years ago, record marked decreases in sea surface temperature and salinity, decreases in the flux of planktonic foraminifera to the sediments, and short-lived, massive discharges of icebergs originating in eastern Canada. The path of the icebergs… Expand

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