Sea ice in the paleoclimate system: the challenge of reconstructing sea ice from proxies–an introduction

A de Vernal, R Gersonde, H Goosse… - Quaternary Science …, 2013 - Elsevier
Sea ice is an important component of the Earth system with complex dynamics imperfectly
documented from direct observations, which are primarily limited to the last 40 years …

Megaflooding associated with glacial Lake Agassiz

TG Fisher - Earth-Science Reviews, 2020 - Elsevier
Significant baseline and episodic megaflooding from glacial Lake Agassiz was routed to the
south, east and north coasts of North America over the lake's nearly 6000 year history. The …

Deglacial floods in the Beaufort Sea preceded Younger Dryas cooling

LD Keigwin, S Klotsko, N Zhao, B Reilly, L Giosan… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
A period of cooling about 13,000 years ago interrupted about 2,000 years of deglacial
warming. Known as the Younger Dryas (YD), the event is thought to have resulted from a …

Sea level fingerprinting of the Bering Strait flooding history detects the source of the Younger Dryas climate event

T Pico, JX Mitrovica, AC Mix - Science advances, 2020 - science.org
During the Last Glacial Maximum, expansive continental ice sheets lowered globally
averaged sea level~ 130 m, exposing a land bridge at the Bering Strait. During the …

Lateglacial shifts in seasonality reconcile conflicting North Atlantic temperature signals

G Bromley, A Putnam, B Hall… - Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The accelerating flux of glacial meltwater to the oceans due to global warming is a potential
trigger for future climate disturbance. Past disruption of Atlantic Ocean circulation, driven by …

Reconstruction of North American drainage basins and river discharge since the Last Glacial Maximum

AD Wickert - Earth Surface Dynamics, 2016 - esurf.copernicus.org
Over the last glacial cycle, ice sheets and the resultant glacial isostatic adjustment (GIA)
rearranged river systems. As these riverine threads that tied the ice sheets to the sea were …

Isotopic fingerprints of ice‐rafted debris offer new constraints on Middle to Late Quaternary Arctic circulation and glacial history

L Dong, L Polyak, Y Liu, X Shi, J Zhang… - Geochemistry …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
For the first time, ice‐rafted debris provenance related to the Quaternary glacial discharge
and circulation was constrained using radiogenic Sr, Nd, and Pb isotopes from a …

An Arctic perspective on dating Mid-Late Pleistocene environmental history

H Alexanderson, J Backman, TM Cronin… - Quaternary Science …, 2014 - Elsevier
To better understand Pleistocene climatic changes in the Arctic, integrated
palaeoenvironmental and palaeoclimatic signals from a variety of marine and terrestrial …

Rapid climate changes during the Lateglacial and the early Holocene as seen from plant community dynamics in the Polar Urals, Russia

AE Bjune, I Greve Alsos, J Brendryen… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT A detailed, well‐dated record of pollen and sedimentary ancient DNA
(sedaDNA) for the period 15 000–9500 cal a bp describes changes at Lake Bolshoye …

Radiogenic isotope (Nd, Pb, Sr) signatures of surface and sea ice-transported sediments from the Arctic Ocean under the present interglacial conditions

J Maccali, C Hillaire-Marcel, C Not - Polar Research, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Under modern conditions, sediments from the large continental shelves of the Arctic Ocean
are mixed by currents, incorporated into sea ice and redistributed over the Arctic Basin …