Subsurface ocean warming preceded Heinrich Events

The mechanism driving past Laurentide Ice-Sheet instabilities remains elusive Here, the authors present a sediment record from the subpolar western North Atlantic and show that massive warming of the upper interior ocean was the likely trigger for repeated collapses of the Laurentide Ice-Sheet and i...

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Main Authors: Lars Max, Dirk Nürnberg, Cristiano M. Chiessi, Marlene M. Lenz, Stefan Mulitza
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-07-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31754-x