| Abstract: | A boxmodel of the Great Lakes is used to estimate meltwater flow into the North Atlantic between 8000 and 14,000 calendar years B.P. Controls on the model include the oxygen isotopic composition of meltwaters and lake waters as measured in the shells of ostracodes. Outflow rates are highest when oxygen isotopic values of the lake waters are most negative, denoting a maximum glacial meltwater component. Flow rates reach maximum values before the onset of the Younger Dryas and after it ends. These maxima appear to be correlative with the major meltwater pulses MWP 1A and 1B. Although the resumption of North Atlantic Deep Water formation may be tied to the reduction in ice sheet melting, neither the onset nor the end of the Younger Dryas, as recorded in the Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP2) records, appear tied to maxima in meltwater outflow from the Laurentide ice sheet. Copyright 2000 by the American Geophysical Union. |
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| Citation Author: | Moore, Jr. , T. C.; Walker, J. C. G.; Rea, D. K.; Lewis, C. F. M.; Shane, L. C. K.; Smith, A. J. |
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| Citation Search Results Text: | Younger Dryas interval and outflow from the Laurentide ice sheet; 2000; Article; Journal; Paleoceanography; Moore, Jr. , T. C.; Walker, J. C. G.; Rea, D. K.; Lewis, C. F. M.; Shane, L. C. K.; Smith, A. J. |
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| Text: | Younger Dryas interval and outflow from the Laurentide ice sheet; 2000; Article; Journal; Paleoceanography; Moore, Jr. , T. C.; Walker, J. C. G.; Rea, D. K.; Lewis, C. F. M.; Shane, L. C. K.; Smith, A. J. |
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