Millennial-scale iceberg discharges in the Irminger Basin during the last glacial period: Relationship with the Heinrich events and environmental settings

Paleoceanography

Volumn 13, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 433-446

  Elliot, Mary ^a   Labeyrie, Laurent ^a,d   Bond, Gerard ^b   Cortijo, Elsa ^a   Turon, Jean Louis ^c,e   Tisnerat, Nadine ^a   Duplessy, Jean Claude ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c Dept de Geol et Oceanogr   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ BORDEAUX 1   (France)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; Heinrich event; Ice rafted debris; Iceberg calving; Irminger Basin; Last Glacial; Paleoceanography

Indexed keywords

HEINRICH EVENT; ICE-RAFTED DEBRIS; ICEBERG CALVING; LAST GLACIAL; PALEOCEANOGRAPHY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRMINGER BASIN;

EID: 0032450579     PISSN: 08838305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98PA01792     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Andrews, J. T., and K. Tedesco, Detrital carbonate-rich sediments, northwestern Labrador Sea: Implications for ice-sheet dynamics and iceberg rafting (Heinrich) events in the North Atlantic, Geology, 20, 1087-1090, 1992.
2. 14C ages measured in planktonic foraminifera: Paleoceanographic implications, Paleoceanography, 3 , 635-645, 1988.
3. 14C ages obtained by mass spectrometry on corals, Radiocarbon, 35, 191-199, 1993.
4. 14C gradient during the Younger Dryas climatic event, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 126, 275-287, 1994.
5. Bé, A. W. H., and D. S. Tolderlund, Distribution and ecology of living planktonic foraminifera in surface waters of the Atlantic and Indian oceans, in Micropaleontology of the Oceans, pp. 105-149, Cambridge Univ. Press, New York, 1971.
6. Bischof, J., D. L. Clark, and J.-S. Vincent, Origin of ice-rafted debris: Pleistocene paleoceanography in the western Arctic Ocean, Paleoceanography, 11, 743-756, 1996.
7. Bond, G., and R. Lotti, Iceberg discharges into the North Atlantic on millennial timescales during the last glaciation, Science, 267, 1005-1010, 1995.
8. Bond, G., et al., Evidence for massive discharges of icebergs into the glacial North Atlantic, Nature, 360, 245-249, 1992.
9. Bond, G., W. Broecker, S. Johnsen, J. McManus, L. Labeyrie, J. Jouzel, and G. Bonani, Correlations between climate records from North Atlantic sediments and Greenland ice, Nature, 365, 143-147, 1993.
10. Broecker, W. S., Massive iceberg discharges as triggers for global climate change, Nature, 572, 421-424, 1994.
11. Carstens, J., D. Hebbeln, and G. Wefer, Distribution of planktonic foraminifera at the ice margin in the Arctic (Fram Strait), Mar. Micropaleontol., 29, 257-269, 1997.
12. Coplen, T. B., Normalization of oxygen and hydrogen isotope data., Chem. Geol., 72, 293-297, 1988.
13. Vidal, L., L. D. Labeyrie, E. Cortijo, M. Arnold, J. C. Duplessy, E. Michel, S. Becqué, and T. C. E. van Weering, Evidence for changes in the North Atlantic Deep Water linked to meltwater surges during the Heinrich events, Earth Planet. Sci. Lett., 146, 13-27, 1997.