Extreme cooling events during the last glacial, known as Heinrich Events in the North Atlantic, are a good example of how local processes change the global climate. While the impacts of Heinrich ...

(Santa Barbara, Calif.) — A great armada entered the North Atlantic, launched from the cold shores of North America. But rather than ships off to war, this force was a fleet of icebergs. And the havoc ...

Evidence for Heinrich events is found as distinct layers of coarse glacial debris in ocean-sediment records 2. Such particles were incorporated at the base of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, and were then ...

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