Freshwater outburst from lake superior as a trigger for the cold event 9300 years ago

Science

Volumn 328, Issue 5983, 2010, Pages 1262-1266

  Yu, Shi Yong ^a,b   Colman, Steven M ^a   Lowell, Thomas V ^c   Milne, Glenn A ^d   Fisher, Timothy G ^e   Breckenridge, Andy ^f   Boyd, Matthew ^g   Teller, James T ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA DULUTH   (United States)

^b Tulane University   (United States)

^c Department of Geology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TOLEDO   (United States)

^f MERCYHURST COLLEGE   (United States)

^g LAKEHEAD UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRESH WATER;

FRESHWATER; GLACIER FLOW; MELTWATER; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OUTBURST; OUTFLOW; PALEOCLIMATE; PROXY CLIMATE RECORD; WATER LEVEL;

ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; CLIMATE CHANGE; COOLING; DEGLACIATION; FEMALE; LAKE; NONHUMAN; NORTH AMERICA; OCEAN CURRENT; PALEOCLIMATE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RIVER;

GREAT LAKES [NORTH AMERICA]; LAKE SUPERIOR;

EID: 77953255523     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1187860     Document Type: Article

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38. S.Y.Y. thanks the University of Minnesota Duluth for providing financial support for this work. T.V.L thanks the Comer Science and Education Foundation for support of this work. G.A.M. acknowledges support from the Canada Research Chairs program and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) of Canada. J.T.T. thanks the NSERC of Canada for support through the Discovery Grants Program. We are indebted to the Sleeping Giant National Park, Ontario, for allowing us access to and coring of the lakes on southern Sibley Peninsula of Ontario. Our gratitude is also extended to A. Noren, A. Myrbo, and K. Brady at | the National Lacustrine Core Repository, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, for their kind assistance in core logging, and to two anonymous reviewers for comments.