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SUBMITTER: Lacka M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7515869 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Łącka Magdalena M Michalska Danuta D Pawłowska Joanna J Szymańska Natalia N Szczuciński Witold W Forwick Matthias M Zajączkowski Marek M
Scientific reports 20200924 1
The Younger Dryas (YD) is recognized as a cool period that began and ended abruptly during a time of general warming at the end of the last glacial. New multi-proxy data from a sediment gravity core from Storfjordrenna (western Barents Sea, 253 m water depth) reveals that the onset of the YD occurred as a single short-lived dramatic environment deterioration, whereas the subsequent warming was oscillatory. The water masses in the western Barents Sea were likely strongly stratified at the onset o ...[more]