ShareMoisture supply for northern ice-sheet growth during the last glacial maximum.
Author(s) : HEBBELN D., DOKKEN T., ANDERSEN E. S., HALD M., ELVERHOI A.
Type of article: Article
Summary
During the last ice age, the Barents Sea ice sheet began to grow 22 kyr ago, only 8 kyr before it began to disintegrate. Such rapid growth of a large ice sheet requires significant amounts of moisture. The authors present data from deep-sea sediment cores from the Fram Strait, which suggest that relatively warm water from the North Atlantic Ocean was advected into the region, in two short-term events (27-22.5 and 19.5-14.5 kyr ago). They suggest that the resulting seasonally ice-free waters were an important regional moisture source for the Barents Sea ice sheet.
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- Original title: Moisture supply for northern ice-sheet growth during the last glacial maximum.
- Record ID : 1995-1232
- Languages: English
- Subject: Environment, General information
- Source: Nature - vol. 370 - n. 6488
- Publication date: 1994/08/04
- Document available for consultation in the library of the IIR headquarters only.
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