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Reversed flow of Atlantic deep water during the Last Glacial Maximum

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  • César Negre

    (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  • Rainer Zahn

    (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Lluís Companys 23
    Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  • Alexander L. Thomas

    (University of Oxford)

  • Pere Masqué

    (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Departament de Física, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)

  • Gideon M. Henderson

    (University of Oxford)

  • Gema Martínez-Méndez

    (Institut de Ciència i Tecnologia Ambientals (ICTA), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
    Present address: Center for Marine Environmental Sciences (MARUM), University of Bremen, Leobener Strasse, 28359 Bremen, Germany.)

  • Ian R. Hall

    (School of Earth and Ocean Sciences, Cardiff University, Main Building, Park Place)

  • José L. Mas

    (Escuela Universitaria Politécnica, Universidad de Sevilla)

Abstract

Ice-age reversal in Atlantic flow The behaviour of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) during the last glacial maximum about 21,000 years ago remains uncertain, with different lines of evidence arguing for either no change or a sharp reduction. César Negre and colleagues now present an analysis of flow-sensitive protactinium and thorium isotopes from the North and South Atlantic and show that the previously contradictory results can be integrated in a new framework, supporting a reversal of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation at the last glacial maximum.

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  • César Negre & Rainer Zahn & Alexander L. Thomas & Pere Masqué & Gideon M. Henderson & Gema Martínez-Méndez & Ian R. Hall & José L. Mas, 2010. "Reversed flow of Atlantic deep water during the Last Glacial Maximum," Nature, Nature, vol. 468(7320), pages 84-88, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:468:y:2010:i:7320:d:10.1038_nature09508
    DOI: 10.1038/nature09508
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