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The Labrador Sea has been a conduit for meltwater from the Laurentide, Inuitian, and Greenland Ice Sheets into the North Atlantic Ocean. Labrador Sea sediments, therefore, provide valuable insights into ice sheet variability (Hesse and Chough, 1980; Hillaire-Marcel et al., 1994; Stoner et al., 1995b...
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| Summary: | The Labrador Sea has been a conduit for meltwater from the Laurentide, Inuitian, and Greenland Ice Sheets into the North Atlantic Ocean. Labrador Sea sediments, therefore, provide valuable insights into ice sheet variability (Hesse and Chough, 1980; Hillaire-Marcel et al., 1994; Stoner et al., 1995b, 1996; Hiscott et al., 2001) and the response of thermohaline circulation to freshwater pulses (Hillaire-Marcel and Bilodeau, 2000). The Eirik Drift was built in the Pliocene and Quaternary by sediment deposition as deepwater currents from the Denmark Strait transporting Norwegian Sea Overflow Water were diverted around southern Greenland (see Arthur et al., 1989). The sediment pile hence provides a high-resolution archive for monitoring this component of North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) as it enters the Labrador Sea. |
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| ISSN: | 1930-1014 1930-1014 |