Canadian Forest Service Publications
Abrupt climate oscillations during the last deglaciation in Central North America. 1998. Yu, Z.C.; Eicher, U. Science 282: 2235-2238.
Year: 1998
Issued by: Northern Forestry Centre
Catalog ID: 18800
Language: English
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Abstract
Evidence from stable isotopes and a variety of proxies from two Ontario lakes demonstrate that many of the late glacial-to-early Holocene events that are well known from the North Atlantic seaboard, such as the Gerzensee-Killarney Oscillation (also known as the Intra-Allerød Cold Period), Younger Dryas, and Preboreal Oscillation, also occurred in central North America. These results thus imply that climatic forcing acted in the same manner in both regions and that atmospheric circulation played an important role in the propagation of these events.