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General treatments of the Younger Dryas include Neil Roberts, The Holocene: An Environmental History (2014); Richard B. Alley, The Two-Mile Time Machine (2014); David E. Anderson, Andrew S. Goudie, and Adrian G. Parker, Global Environments Through the Quaternary: Exploring Environmental Change, 2nd. ed. (2013); and William James Burroughs, Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos (2008).
Technical assessments of various aspects of the interval are found in Hans Renssen et al., “Multiple Causes of the Younger Dryas Cold Period,” Nature Geoscience, 8:946–950 (October 12, 2015); L.D. Keigwin et al., “Deglacial Floods in the Beaufort Sea Preceded Younger Dryas Cooling,” Nature Geoscience, 11:599–604 (July 9, 2018); Takuro Kobashia et al., “4 1.5 °C Abrupt Warming 11,270 Years Ago Identified from Trapped Air in Greenland Ice,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 268:397–407 (April 30, 2008); D.J. Kovanen and D.J. Easterbrook, “Timing and Extent of Allerød and Younger Dryas Age (ca. 12,500–10,000 14C yr B.P.) Oscillations of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in the Fraser Lowland, Western North America,” Quaternary Research, 57:208–224 (2002); and D.I. Benn and C.K. Ballantyne, “Palaeoclimatic Inferences from Reconstructed Loch Lomond Readvance Glaciers, West Drumochter Hills, Scotland,” Journal of Quaternary Science, 20:577–592 (2005).
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Modified link of Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics. | Nov 27, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution - Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event. | Oct 04, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: National Center for Biotechnology Information - PubMed Central - Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics. | May 18, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: Science - The Younger Dryas: Cold, Cold Everywhere? | Jan 19, 2024 | ||
Add new Web site: PNAS - Timing and structure of the Younger Dryas event and its underlying climate dynamics. | Oct 24, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: NOAA - The Younger Dryas. | Sep 15, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: Nature - Timing of abrupt climate change at the end of the Younger Dryas interval from thermally fractionated gases in polar ice. | Jun 07, 2023 | ||
Add new Web site: Columbia University - Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory - What scientific evidence do we have that abrupt climate change has happened before? | Feb 11, 2023 | ||
Article revised and updated. | Aug 11, 2021 | ||
New article added. | Jul 11, 2019 |