Looking for the Younger Dryas

Type:

Book Chapter

Published:

2016

Publisher:

Routledge

The Younger Dryas has been known since the mid-twentieth century as a distinctive climatic phenomenon of Late Glacial Europe; but by the 1990s, it had gone global. Evidence across the northern hemisphere, along with a few hints from the southern hemisphere, seemed to indicate this was a widespread, abrupt, and possibly quite severe cold snap that for a geologically brief period dating between approximately 11,000 and 10,000 years ago (12,900-11,700 calendar years before present [Steffensen et al. 2008]), which reversed the trend of postglacial warming (e.g., Alley 2007).

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