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Deglacial floods in the Beaufort Sea preceded Younger Dryas cooling

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Keigwin, L. D., Klotsko, S., Zhao, N., Reilly, B., Giosan, L., and Driscoll, N. W.

Abstract:

A period of cooling about 13,000 years ago interrupted about 2,000 years of deglacial warming. Known as the Younger Dryas (YD), the event is thought to have resulted from a slowdown of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation in response to a sudden flood of Laurentide Ice Sheet meltwater that reached...

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. Reilly3, L. Giosan1 and N. W. Driscoll2 A period of cooling about 13,000 years ago interrupted about