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Putting the Younger Dryas cold event into context

Wallace S. Broecker, George H. Denton, R. Lawrence Edwards et al., 2010. Quaternary Science Reviews 29(9–10), 1078–1081.

Places the Younger Dryas among the repeated abrupt cold events of the last deglaciation linked to changes in the Atlantic overturning circulation, and argues it needs no unique trigger.

MYS0D51WZ1P63TH · mystery · click to copyMYounger Dryas impact hypothesisArticledoi: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.019Checked against the original0

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The mainstream ocean-circulation account of the cooling.

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Broecker, W. S., Denton, G. H., Edwards, R. L., Cheng, H., Alley, R. B., & Putnam, A. E. (2010). Putting the Younger Dryas cold event into context. Quaternary Science Reviews 29(9–10), 1078–1081. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.019
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