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Younger Dryas

December 15, 2023

The Younger Dryas, which occurred circa 12,900 to 11,700 years BP,[2] was a return to glacial conditions which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum,[3] which lasted from circa 27,000 to 20,000 years BP. The Younger Dryas was the last stage of the Pleistocene epoch that spanned from 2,580,000 to 11,700 years BP and it preceded the current, warmer Holocene epoch. The Younger Dryas was the most severe and longest lasting of several interruptions to the warming of the Earth's climate, and it was preceded by the Late Glacial Interstadial (also called the Bølling–Allerød interstadial), an interval of relative warmth that lasted from 14,670 to 12,900 BP.

Evolution of temperatures in the postglacial period, after the Last Glacial Maximum, showing very low temperatures for the most part of the Younger Dryas, rapidly rising afterwards to reach the level of the warm Holocene, based on Greenland ice cores.[1]

The change was relatively sudden, took place over decades, and resulted in a decline of temperatures in Greenland by 4~10 °C (7.2~18 °F),[4] and advances of glaciers and drier conditions over much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere. A number of theories have been put forward about the cause, and the hypothesis historically most supported by scientists is that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, which transports warm water from the Equator towards the North Pole, was interrupted by an influx of fresh, cold water from North America into the Atlantic.[5] However, several issues do exist with this hypothesis, one of which is the lack of a clear geomorphological route for the meltwater. In fact, the originator of the meltwater hypothesis, Wallace Broecker, stated in 2010 that "The long-held scenario that the Younger Dryas was a one-time outlier triggered by a flood of water stored in proglacial Lake Agassiz has fallen from favor due to lack of a clear geomorphic signature at the correct time and place on the landscape".[6] A volcanic trigger has been proposed more recently,[7] and the presence of anomalously high levels of volcanism immediately preceding the onset of the Younger Dryas has been confirmed in both ice cores[8] and cave deposits.[9]

The Younger Dryas did not affect the climate equally worldwide, but the average worldwide temperature changed drastically. For example, in the Southern Hemisphere and some areas of the Northern Hemisphere, such as southeastern North America, a slight warming occurred.[10]

The Younger Dryas is named after an indicator genus, the alpine-tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala, as its leaves are occasionally abundant in late glacial, often minerogenic-rich sediments, such as the lake sediments of Scandinavia.

General description and context edit

 
This image shows temperature changes, determined as proxy temperatures, taken from the central region of Greenland's ice sheet during the Late Pleistocene and beginning of the Holocene.

The presence of a distinct cold period at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum has been known for a long time. Paleobotanical and lithostratigraphic studies of Swedish and Danish bog and lake sites, as in the Allerød clay pit in Denmark, first recognized and described the Younger Dryas.[11][12][13][14]

The Younger Dryas is the youngest and longest of three stadials, which resulted from typically abrupt climatic changes that took place over the last 16,000 years.[15] Within the Blytt–Sernander classification of north European climatic phases, the prefix "Younger" refers to the recognition that this original "Dryas" period was preceded by a warmer stage, the Allerød oscillation, which, in turn, was preceded by the Older Dryas, around 14,000 calibrated years BP. That is not securely dated, and estimates vary by 400 years, but it is generally accepted to have lasted around 200 years. In northern Scotland, the glaciers were thicker and more extensive than during the Younger Dryas.[16] The Older Dryas, in turn, was preceded by another warmer stage, the Bølling oscillation, that separated it from a third and even older stadial, often known as the Oldest Dryas. The Oldest Dryas occurred about 1,770 calibrated years before the Younger Dryas and lasted about 400 calibrated years. According to the GISP2 ice core from Greenland, the Oldest Dryas occurred between about 15,070 and 14,670 calibrated years BP.[17]

In Ireland, the Younger Dryas has also been known as the Nahanagan Stadial, and in Great Britain it has been called the Loch Lomond Stadial.[18][19] In the Greenland Summit ice core chronology, the Younger Dryas corresponds to Greenland Stadial 1 (GS-1). The preceding Allerød warm period (interstadial) is subdivided into three events: Greenland Interstadial-1c to 1a (GI-1c to GI-1a).[20]

 
Temperatures derived from EPICA Dome C Ice Core in Antarctica

In addition to the Younger, Older, and Oldest Dryases, a century-long period of colder climate, similar to the Younger Dryas in abruptness, has occurred within both the Bølling oscillation and the Allerød oscillation interstadials. The cold period that occurred within the Bølling oscillation is known as the intra-Bølling cold period, and the cold period that occurred within the Allerød oscillation is known as the intra-Allerød cold period. Both cold periods are comparable in duration and intensity with the Older Dryas and began and ended quite abruptly. The cold periods have been recognized in sequence and relative magnitude in paleoclimatic records from Greenland ice cores, European lacustrine sediments, Atlantic Ocean sediments, and the Cariaco Basin, Venezuela.[21][22]

Examples of older Younger Dryas-like events have been reported from the ends (called terminations)[a] of older glacial periods. Temperature-sensitive lipids, long chain alkenones, found in lake and marine sediments, are well-regarded as a powerful paleothermometer for the quantitative reconstruction of past continental climates.[25][page needed] The application of alkenone paleothermometers to high-resolution paleotemperature reconstructions of older glacial terminations have found that very similar, Younger Dryas-like paleoclimatic oscillations occurred during Terminations II and IV.[a] If so, the Younger Dryas is not the unique paleoclimatic event, in terms of size, extent, and rapidity, as it is often regarded to be.[25][26] Furthermore, paleoclimatologists and Quaternary geologists reported finding what they characterized as well-expressed Younger Dryas events in the Chinese δ18
O records of Termination III[a] in stalagmites from high-altitude caves in Shennongjia area, Hubei Province, China.[27] Various paleoclimatic records from ice cores, deep-sea sediments, speleothems, continental paleobotanical data, and loesses show similar abrupt climate events, which are consistent with Younger Dryas events, during the terminations of the last four glacial periods (see Dansgaard–Oeschger event). They argue that Younger Dryas events might be an intrinsic feature of deglaciations that occur at the end of glacial periods.[27][28][29]

Timing edit

Analyses of stable isotopes from Greenland ice cores provide estimates for the start and end of the Younger Dryas. The analysis of Greenland Summit ice cores, as part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 and Greenland Icecore Project, estimated that the Younger Dryas started about 12,800 ice (calibrated) years BP. More recent work with stalagmites strongly suggests a start date of 12,870 ± 30 years BP,[30] consistent with the more recent North Greenland Ice core Project (NGRIP) ice core data.[30] Depending on the specific ice core analysis consulted, the Younger Dryas is estimated to have lasted 1,150~1,300 years.[11][12] Measurements of oxygen isotopes from the GISP2 ice core suggest the ending of the Younger Dryas took place over a period of about 50 years.[31] Other proxy data, such as dust concentration and snow accumulation, suggest an even more rapid transition, lasting for 30 years or less,[32] potentially as rapid as less than 20 years.[31] Greenland experienced about 7 °C (13 °F) of warming in just half a century.[33] Total warming in Greenland was 10 ± 4 °C (18 ± 7 °F).[34]

The end of the Younger Dryas has been dated to around 11,550 years ago, occurring at 10,000 BP (uncalibrated radiocarbon year), a "radiocarbon plateau" by a variety of methods, mostly with consistent results:

Years ago Place
11500 ± 50  GRIP ice core, Greenland[35]
11530 + 40
− 60		 Krakenes Lake, western Norway[36]
11570 Cariaco Basin core, Venezuela[37]
11570 German oak and pine dendrochronology[38]
11640 ± 280 GISP2 ice core, Greenland[39]

The International Commission on Stratigraphy put the start of the Greenlandian stage, and implicitly the end of the Younger Dryas, at 11,700 years before 2000.[40]

Although the start of the Younger Dryas is regarded to be synchronous across the North Atlantic region, recent research concluded that the start of the Younger Dryas might be time-transgressive even within there. After an examination of laminated varve sequences, Muschitiello and Wohlfarth found that the environmental changes that define the beginning of the Younger Dryas are diachronous in their time of occurrence according to latitude. According to the changes, the Younger Dryas occurred as early as around 12,900~13,100 calibrated years ago along latitude 56–54°N. Further north, they found that the changes occurred at roughly 12,600–12,750 calibrated years ago.[41]

 
Dryas stadials

According to the analyses of varved sediments from Lake Suigetsu, Japan, and other paleoenvironmental records from Asia, a substantial delay occurred in the onset and the end of the Younger Dryas between Asia and the North Atlantic. For example, paleoenvironmental analysis of sediment cores from Lake Suigetsu in Japan found the Younger Dryas temperature decline of 2–4 °C between 12,300 and 11,250 varve (calibrated) years BP, instead of about 12,900 calibrated years BP in the North Atlantic region.

In contrast, the abrupt shift in the radiocarbon signal from apparent radiocarbon dates of 11,000 radiocarbon years to radiocarbon dates of 10,700–10,600 radiocarbon years BP in terrestrial macrofossils and tree rings in Europe over a 50-year period occurred at the same time in the varved sediments of Lake Suigetsu. However, this same shift in the radiocarbon signal antedates the start of Younger Dryas at Lake Suigetsu by a few hundred years. Interpretations of data from Chinese also confirm that the Younger Dryas East Asia lags the North Atlantic Younger Dryas cooling by at least 200~300 years. Although the interpretation of the data is more murky and ambiguous, the end of the Younger Dryas and the start of Holocene warming likely were similarly delayed in Japan and in other parts of East Asia.[42]

Similarly, an analysis of a stalagmite growing from a cave in Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park, Palawan, the Philippines, found that the onset of the Younger Dryas was also delayed there. Proxy data recorded in the stalagmite indicate that more than 550 calibrated years were needed for Younger Dryas drought conditions to reach their full extent in the region and about 450 calibrated years to return to pre-Younger Dryas levels after it ended.[43]

In the Orca Basin in the Gulf of Mexico, a drop in sea surface temperature of approximately 2.4 ± 0.6°C that lasted from 12,800 to 11,600 BP, as measured by Mg/Ca ratios in the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides ruber signifies the occurrence of the Younger Dryas in the Gulf of Mexico.[44]

Global effects edit

The Younger Dryas was globally synchronous or very nearly so.[45] However, the magnitude of the drop in global mean surface temperature was modest; the Younger Dryas was not a global relapse into peak glacial conditions.[46]

In Western Europe and Greenland, the Younger Dryas is a well-defined synchronous cool period.[47] Cooling in the tropical North Atlantic may, however, have preceded it by a few hundred years; South America shows a less well-defined initiation but a sharp termination. The Antarctic Cold Reversal appears to have started a thousand years before the Younger Dryas and has no clearly defined start or end; Peter Huybers has argued that there is a fair confidence in the absence of the Younger Dryas in Antarctica, New Zealand and parts of Oceania.[48] Timing of the tropical counterpart to the Younger Dryas, the Deglaciation Climate Reversal (DCR), is difficult to establish as low latitude ice core records generally lack independent dating over the interval. An example of this is the Sajama ice core (Bolivia), for which the timing of the DCR has been pinned to that of the GISP2 ice core record (central Greenland). Climatic change in the central Andes during the DCR, however, was significant and was characterized by a shift to much wetter and likely colder conditions.[49] The magnitude and abruptness of the changes would suggest that low latitude climate did not respond passively during the YD/DCR.

Effects of the Younger Dryas were of varying intensity throughout North America.[50] In western North America, its effects were less intense than in Europe or northeast North America;[51] however, evidence of a glacial re-advance[52] indicates that Younger Dryas cooling occurred in the Pacific Northwest. Speleothems from the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve in southern Oregon's Klamath Mountains yield evidence of climatic cooling contemporaneous to the Younger Dryas.[53]

Other features include the following:

  • Replacement of forest in Scandinavia with glacial tundra (which is the habitat of the plant Dryas octopetala)
  • Glaciation or increased snow in mountain ranges around the world
  • Formation of solifluction layers and loess deposits in Northern Europe
  • More dust in the atmosphere, originating from deserts in Asia
  • A decline in evidence for Natufian hunter gatherer permanent settlements in the Levant, suggesting a reversion to a more mobile way of life[54]
  • The Huelmo–Mascardi Cold Reversal in the Southern Hemisphere ended at the same time
  • Decline of the Clovis culture; while no definitive cause for the extinction of many species in North America such as the Columbian mammoth, as well as the Dire wolf, Camelops, and other Rancholabrean megafauna during the Younger Dryas has been determined, climate change and human hunting activities have been suggested as contributing factors.[55] Recently, it has been found that these megafauna populations collapsed 1000 years earlier.[56]

North America edit

Greenland edit

Despite cold conditions, Greenlandic glaciers retreated during the Younger Dryas,[57] with the exception of some local glaciers in northern Greenland.[58] This was most likely due to a weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC).[57]

East edit

The Younger Dryas is a period significant to the study of the response of biota to abrupt climate change and to the study of how humans coped with such rapid changes.[59] The effects of sudden cooling in the North Atlantic had strong regional effects in North America, with some areas experiencing more abrupt changes than others.[60] A cooling and ice advance accompanying the transition into the Younger Dryas between 13,300 and 13,000 cal years BP has been confirmed with many radiocarbon dates from four sites in western New York State. The advance is similar in age to the Two Creeks forest bed in Wisconsin.[61]

The effects of the Younger Dryas cooling affected the area that is now New England and parts of maritime Canada more rapidly than the rest of the present day United States at the beginning and the end of the Younger Dryas chronozone.[62][63][64][65] Proxy indicators show that summer temperature conditions in Maine decreased by up to 7.5 °C. Cool summers, combined with cold winters and low precipitation, resulted in a treeless tundra up to the onset of the Holocene, when the boreal forests shifted north.[66]

Vegetation in the central Appalachian Mountains east towards the Atlantic Ocean was dominated by spruce (Picea spp.) and tamarack (Larix laricina) boreal forests that later changed rapidly to temperate, more broad-leaf tree forest conditions at the end of the Younger Dryas period.[67][68] Conversely, pollen and macrofossil evidence from near Lake Ontario indicates that cool, boreal forests persisted into the early Holocene.[68] West of the Appalachians, in the Ohio River Valley and south to Florida rapid, no-analog vegetation responses seem to have been the result of rapid climate changes, but the area remained generally cool, with hardwood forest dominating.[67] During the Younger Dryas, the Southeastern United States was warmer and wetter than the region had been during the Pleistocene[68][60][69] because of trapped heat from the Caribbean within the North Atlantic Gyre caused by a weakened AMOC.[70]

Central edit

Also, a gradient of changing effects occurred from the Great Lakes region south to Texas and Louisiana. Climatic forcing moved cold air into the northern portion of the American interior, much as it did the Northeast.[71][72] Although there was not as abrupt a delineation as seen on the Eastern Seaboard, the Midwest was significantly colder in the northern interior than it was south, towards the warmer climatic influence of the Gulf of Mexico.[60][73] In the north, the Laurentide Ice Sheet re-advanced during the Younger Dryas, depositing a moraine from west Lake Superior to southeast Quebec.[74] Along the southern margins of the Great Lakes, spruce dropped rapidly, while pine increased, and herbaceous prairie vegetation decreased in abundance, but increased west of the region.[75][72]

Rocky Mountains edit

Effects in the Rocky Mountain region were varied.[76][77] In the northern Rockies, a significant increase in pines and firs suggests warmer conditions than before and a shift to subalpine parkland in places.[78][79][80][81] That is hypothesized to be the result of a northward shift in the jet stream, combined with an increase in summer insolation[78][82] as well as a winter snow pack that was higher than today, with prolonged and wetter spring seasons.[83] There were minor re-advancements of glaciers in place, particularly in the northern ranges,[84][85] but several sites in the Rocky Mountain ranges show little to no changes in vegetation during the Younger Dryas.[79] Evidence also indicates an increase in precipitation in New Mexico because of the same Gulf conditions that were influencing Texas.[86]

West edit

The Pacific Northwest region experienced 2 to 3 °C of cooling and an increase in precipitation.[87][69][88][89][90][91] Glacial re-advancement has been recorded in British Columbia[92][93] as well as in the Cascade Range.[94] An increase of pine pollen indicates cooler winters within the central Cascades.[95] On the Olympic Peninsula, a mid-elevation site recorded a decrease in fire, but forest persisted and erosion increased during the Younger Dryas, which suggests cool and wet conditions.[96] Speleothem records indicate an increase in precipitation in southern Oregon,[90][97] the timing of which coincides with increased sizes of pluvial lakes in the northern Great Basin.[98] Pollen record from the Siskiyou Mountains suggests a lag in timing of the Younger Dryas, indicating a greater influence of warmer Pacific conditions on that range,[99] but the pollen record is less chronologically constrained than the aforementioned speleothem record. The Southwest appears to have seen an increase in precipitation, as well, also with an average 2 °C of cooling.[100]

Europe edit

Since 1916 and the onset and the subsequent refinement of pollen analytical techniques and a steadily-growing number of pollen diagrams, palynologists have concluded that the Younger Dryas was a distinct period of vegetational change in large parts of Europe during which vegetation of a warmer climate was replaced by that of a generally cold climate, a glacial plant succession that often contained Dryas octopetala.[101] The drastic change in vegetation is typically interpreted to be an effect of a sudden decrease in (annual) temperature, unfavorable for the forest vegetation that had been spreading northward rapidly. The cooling not only favored the expansion of cold-tolerant, light-demanding plants and associated steppe fauna, but also led to regional glacial advances in Scandinavia and a lowering of the regional snow line.[11]

The change to glacial conditions at the onset of the Younger Dryas in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere, between 12,900 and 11,500 calibrated years BP, has been argued to have been quite abrupt.[32] It is in sharp contrast to the warming of the preceding Older Dryas interstadial. Its end has been inferred to have occurred over a period of a decade or so,[31] but the onset may have even been faster.[102] Thermally fractionated nitrogen and argon isotope data from Greenland ice core GISP2 indicate that its summit was around 15 °C (27 °F) colder during the Younger Dryas[32][103] than today.

In Great Britain, the mean annual temperature was no higher than −1 °C (−1.8 °F) as indicated by the presence of permafrost,[39] and beetle fossil evidence suggests that the mean annual temperature dropped to −5 °C (23 °F),[103] and periglacial conditions prevailed in lowland areas, and icefields and glaciers formed in upland areas.[104] Sea ice influences on seasonality fostered exceptional aridity in Scotland.[105] Nothing of the period's size, extent, or rapidity of abrupt climate change has been experienced since its end.[32]

In what is now Hesse, the early part of the Younger Dryas saw the development of a multi-channel braidplain. During the later Younger Dryas, this braidplain reverted back to a fluvial system of straight and meandering rivers akin to that which had been the norm during the Allerød oscillation.[106]

In the Dinaric Alps, various lateral and terminal moraines have been dated to have been formed during the Younger Dryas and associated resurgence of glaciers.[107] Evidence from the Jabllanica range indicates that aridity fostered continued glacial retreat despite the cold temperatures of the Younger Dryas.[108]


Middle East edit

Anatolia was extremely arid during the Younger Dryas.[109][110] No intensification of geomorphodynamic activity occurred around Gobekli Tepe at the terminus of the Younger Dryas.[111]

East Asia edit

Pollen records from Lake Gonghai in Shanxi, China show a major increase in aridity synchronous with the onset of the Younger Dryas, believed by some scholars to be a consequence of a weakened East Asian Summer Monsoon (EASM).[112] Some studies, however, have concluded that the EASM instead strengthened during the Younger Dryas.[113]

Effects on agriculture edit

The Younger Dryas is often linked to the Neolithic Revolution, with the adoption of agriculture in the Levant.[114][115] The cold and dry Younger Dryas arguably lowered the carrying capacity of the area and forced the sedentary early Natufian population into a more mobile subsistence pattern. Further climatic deterioration is thought to have brought about cereal cultivation. While relative consensus exists regarding the role of the Younger Dryas in the changing subsistence patterns during the Natufian, its connection to the beginning of agriculture at the end of the period is still being debated.[116][117]

Sea level edit

Based upon solid geological evidence, consisting largely of the analysis of numerous deep cores from coral reefs, variations in the rates of sea level rise have been reconstructed for the postglacial period. For the early part of the sea level rise that is associated with deglaciation, three major periods of accelerated sea level rise, called meltwater pulses, occurred. They are commonly called

  • meltwater pulse 1A0 for the pulse between 19,000~19,500 calibrated years ago;
  • meltwater pulse 1A for the pulse between 14,600~14,300 calibrated years ago;
  • meltwater pulse 1B for the pulse between 11,400~11,100 calibrated years ago.

The Younger Dryas occurred after meltwater pulse 1A, a 13.5 m rise over about 290 years, centered at about 14,200 calibrated years ago, and before meltwater pulse 1B, a 7.5 m rise over about 160 years, centered at about 11,000 calibrated years ago.[118][119][120] Finally, not only did the Younger Dryas postdate both all of meltwater pulse 1A and predate all of meltwater pulse 1B, it was a period of significantly-reduced rate of sea level rise relative to the periods of time immediately before and after it.[118][121]

Possible evidence of short-term sea level changes has been reported for the beginning of the Younger Dryas. First, the plotting of data by Bard and others suggests a small drop, less than 6 m, in sea level near the onset of the Younger Dryas. There is a possible corresponding change in the rate of change of sea level rise seen in the data from both Barbados and Tahiti. Given that this change is "within the overall uncertainty of the approach," it was concluded that a relatively smooth sea-level rise, with no significant accelerations, occurred then.[121] Finally, research by Lohe and others in western Norway has reported a sea-level low-stand at 13,640 calibrated years ago and a subsequent Younger Dryas transgression starting at 13,080 calibrated years ago.[122] They concluded that the timing of the Allerød low-stand and the subsequent transgression were the result of increased regional loading of the crust, and geoid changes were caused by an expanding ice sheet,[123] which started growing and advancing in the early Allerød, about 13,600 calibrated years ago, well before the start of the Younger Dryas.[122]

Ocean circulation edit

The Younger Dryas resulted in decreased ventilation of ocean bottom waters. Cores from the western subtropical North Atlantic show that the ventilation age of the bottom water there was about 1,000 years, twice the age of Late Holocene bottom waters from the same site around 1,500 BP.[124]

Cause edit

The Younger Dryas has historically been thought to have been caused by significant reduction or shutdown of the North Atlantic "Conveyor" – which circulates warm tropical waters northward – as the consequence of deglaciation in North America and a sudden influx of fresh water from Lake Agassiz. The lack of geological evidence for such an event[125] stimulated further exploration, but no consensus exists on the precise source of the freshwater, and in fact the freshwater pulse hypothesis has recently been called into question.[6] Although originally the freshwater pathway was believed to be the Saint Lawrence Seaway,[125] the lack of evidence for this route has led researchers to suggest alternative sources for the freshwater, including a pathway along the Mackenzie River,[126][127][128] deglacial water coming off of Scandinavia,[129] the melting of sea ice,[130] increased rainfall,[131] or increased snowfall across the North Atlantic.[132] The global climate would then have become locked into the new state until freezing removed the fresh water "lid" from the North Atlantic. However, simulations indicated that a one-time-flood could not likely cause the new state to be locked for 1,000 years. Once the flood ceased, the AMOC would recover and the Younger Dryas would stop in less than 100 years. Therefore, continuous freshwater input would be necessary to maintain a weak AMOC for more than 1,000 years. A 2018 study proposed that the snowfall could be a source of continuous freshwater resulting in a prolonged weakened state of the AMOC.[132] The lack of consensus regarding the origin of the freshwater, combined with the lack of evidence for sea level rise during the Younger Dryas,[133] are problematic for any hypothesis where the Younger Dryas was triggered by floodwater.[6][7]

It is often noted that the Younger Dryas is merely the last of 25 or 26 major climate episodes (Dansgaard-Oeschger events, or D-O events) over the past 120,000 years. These episodes are characterized by abrupt beginnings and endings (with changes taking place on timescales of decades or centuries).[134][135] The Younger Dryas is the best known and best understood because it is the most recent, but it is fundamentally similar to the previous cold phases over the past 120,000 years.[136] Based on the fact that the Younger Dryas is extremely similar in structure with previous cold phases not thought to have been caused by meltwater pulses, it has been argued that understanding the causes of the Younger Dryas "would benefit from examining the mechanisms used to explain D–O events rather than relying on the meltwater hypothesis[136]".

Another idea is that a solar flare may have been responsible for the megafaunal extinction that occurred at approximately the same time as the Younger Dryas, but that cannot explain the apparent variability in the timing of the extinction across all continents.[137][138] The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis attributes the cooling to the impact of a disintegrating comet or asteroid, but that idea is rejected by most experts[139] though it is promoted by pseudoscientific archaeology television.[140]

An increasingly well-supported alternative to the meltwater trigger is that the Younger Dryas was triggered by volcanism. Numerous papers now confidently link volcanism to a variety of cold events across the last two millennia[141] and the Holocene,[142] and in particular several note the ability of volcanic eruptions to trigger climate change lasting for centuries to millennia.[143][144] It was proposed that a high latitude volcanic eruption could have shifted atmospheric circulation sufficiently to increase North Atlantic sea ice growth and slow down AMOC, subsequently leading to a positive cooling feedback and initiating the Younger Dryas.[7] This perspective is now supported by evidence for volcanism coinciding with the start of the Younger Dryas from both cave deposits[9] and glacial ice cores.[8] Particularly strong support comes from sulphur data from Greenland ice cores showing that the radiative forcing associated with the cluster of eruptions immediately preceding the Younger Dryas initiation "exceeds the most volcanically active periods during the Common Era, which experienced notable multidecadal scale cooling commonly attributed to volcanic effects[8]". Notably, the sulphur data strongly suggest that a very large and high latitude northern hemisphere eruption occurred 12,870 years ago,[8] a date indistinguishable from the stalagmite-derived onset of the Younger Dryas event.[30] It is unclear which eruption was responsible for this sulphur spike, but the characteristics are consistent with the Laacher See eruption as the source. The eruption was dated to 12,880 ± 40 years BP by varve counting sediment in a German lake[145] and to 12,900 ± 560 years by 40Ar/39Ar dating,[146] both of which are within dating uncertainites of the sulphur spike at 12,870 years BP, and make the Laacher See eruption a possible trigger for the Younger Dryas. However, a new radiocarbon date challenges the previous dating for the Laacher See eruption, moving it back to 13,006 years BP,[147] but this date itself has been challenged as potentially having been affected by radiocarbon 'dead' magmatic carbon dioxide, which was not accounted for and made the date appear older than it was.[148] Regardless of the ambiguity surrounding the date for the Laacher See eruption, it almost certainly caused substantial cooling either immediately before the Younger Dryas event[7][148] or as one of the several eruptions which clustered in the ~100 years preceding the event.[8]

A volcanic trigger for the Younger Dryas event also explains why there was little sea level change at the beginning of the event.[133] Furthermore, it is also consistent with previous work that links volcanism with D-O events[149][150] and with the perspective that the Younger Dryas is simply the most recent D-O event.[136] It is worth noting that of the proposed Younger Dryas triggers, the volcanic trigger is the only one with evidence that is almost universally accepted as reflecting the actual occurrence of the trigger. No consensus exists that a meltwater pulse happened, or that a bolide impact occurred prior to the Younger Dryas, whereas the evidence of anomalously strong volcanism prior to the Younger Dryas event is now very strong.[7][8][9][148] Outstanding questions include whether a short-lived volcanic forcing can trigger 1,300 years of cooling, and how background climate conditions affect the climate response to volcanism.

End of the Younger Dryas edit

The end of the Younger Dryas was caused by an increase in carbon dioxide levels and a shift in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. Evidence suggests that most of the increase in temperature between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene took place in the immediate aftermath of the Oldest Dryas and Younger Dryas, with there being comparatively little variations in global temperature within the Oldest and Younger Dryas periods and within the Bølling-Allerød warming.[151]

See also edit

Footnotes edit

  1. ^ a b c The relatively rapid changes from cold conditions to warm interglacials are called terminations). They are numbered from the most recent termination as I and with increasing value (II, III, and so forth) into the past. Termination I is the end Marine Isotope Stage 2 (Last Glacial Maximum); Termination II is the end of the Marine Isotope Stage 6 (c. 130,000 years BP); Termination III is the end of Marine Isotope Stage 8 (c. 243,000 years BP); Termination IV is the end of Marine Isotope Stage 10 (337,000 years BP).[23][24]

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The Younger Dryas which occurred circa 12 900 to 11 700 years BP 2 was a return to glacial conditions which temporarily reversed the gradual climatic warming after the Last Glacial Maximum 3 which lasted from circa 27 000 to 20 000 years BP The Younger Dryas was the last stage of the Pleistocene epoch that spanned from 2 580 000 to 11 700 years BP and it preceded the current warmer Holocene epoch The Younger Dryas was the most severe and longest lasting of several interruptions to the warming of the Earth s climate and it was preceded by the Late Glacial Interstadial also called the Bolling Allerod interstadial an interval of relative warmth that lasted from 14 670 to 12 900 BP Evolution of temperatures in the postglacial period after the Last Glacial Maximum showing very low temperatures for the most part of the Younger Dryas rapidly rising afterwards to reach the level of the warm Holocene based on Greenland ice cores 1 The change was relatively sudden took place over decades and resulted in a decline of temperatures in Greenland by 4 10 C 7 2 18 F 4 and advances of glaciers and drier conditions over much of the temperate Northern Hemisphere A number of theories have been put forward about the cause and the hypothesis historically most supported by scientists is that the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation which transports warm water from the Equator towards the North Pole was interrupted by an influx of fresh cold water from North America into the Atlantic 5 However several issues do exist with this hypothesis one of which is the lack of a clear geomorphological route for the meltwater In fact the originator of the meltwater hypothesis Wallace Broecker stated in 2010 that The long held scenario that the Younger Dryas was a one time outlier triggered by a flood of water stored in proglacial Lake Agassiz has fallen from favor due to lack of a clear geomorphic signature at the correct time and place on the landscape 6 A volcanic trigger has been proposed more recently 7 and the presence of anomalously high levels of volcanism immediately preceding the onset of the Younger Dryas has been confirmed in both ice cores 8 and cave deposits 9 The Younger Dryas did not affect the climate equally worldwide but the average worldwide temperature changed drastically For example in the Southern Hemisphere and some areas of the Northern Hemisphere such as southeastern North America a slight warming occurred 10 The Younger Dryas is named after an indicator genus the alpine tundra wildflower Dryas octopetala as its leaves are occasionally abundant in late glacial often minerogenic rich sediments such as the lake sediments of Scandinavia Contents 1 General description and context 2 Timing 3 Global effects 3 1 North America 3 1 1 Greenland 3 1 2 East 3 1 3 Central 3 1 4 Rocky Mountains 3 1 5 West 3 2 Europe 3 3 Middle East 3 4 East Asia 3 5 Effects on agriculture 3 6 Sea level 3 7 Ocean circulation 4 Cause 5 End of the Younger Dryas 6 See also 7 Footnotes 8 References 8 1 Cited sources 9 External linksGeneral description and context edit nbsp This image shows temperature changes determined as proxy temperatures taken from the central region of Greenland s ice sheet during the Late Pleistocene and beginning of the Holocene The presence of a distinct cold period at the end of the Last Glacial Maximum has been known for a long time Paleobotanical and lithostratigraphic studies of Swedish and Danish bog and lake sites as in the Allerod clay pit in Denmark first recognized and described the Younger Dryas 11 12 13 14 The Younger Dryas is the youngest and longest of three stadials which resulted from typically abrupt climatic changes that took place over the last 16 000 years 15 Within the Blytt Sernander classification of north European climatic phases the prefix Younger refers to the recognition that this original Dryas period was preceded by a warmer stage the Allerod oscillation which in turn was preceded by the Older Dryas around 14 000 calibrated years BP That is not securely dated and estimates vary by 400 years but it is generally accepted to have lasted around 200 years In northern Scotland the glaciers were thicker and more extensive than during the Younger Dryas 16 The Older Dryas in turn was preceded by another warmer stage the Bolling oscillation that separated it from a third and even older stadial often known as the Oldest Dryas The Oldest Dryas occurred about 1 770 calibrated years before the Younger Dryas and lasted about 400 calibrated years According to the GISP2 ice core from Greenland the Oldest Dryas occurred between about 15 070 and 14 670 calibrated years BP 17 In Ireland the Younger Dryas has also been known as the Nahanagan Stadial and in Great Britain it has been called the Loch Lomond Stadial 18 19 In the Greenland Summit ice core chronology the Younger Dryas corresponds to Greenland Stadial 1 GS 1 The preceding Allerod warm period interstadial is subdivided into three events Greenland Interstadial 1c to 1a GI 1c to GI 1a 20 nbsp Temperatures derived from EPICA Dome C Ice Core in AntarcticaIn addition to the Younger Older and Oldest Dryases a century long period of colder climate similar to the Younger Dryas in abruptness has occurred within both the Bolling oscillation and the Allerod oscillation interstadials The cold period that occurred within the Bolling oscillation is known as the intra Bolling cold period and the cold period that occurred within the Allerod oscillation is known as the intra Allerod cold period Both cold periods are comparable in duration and intensity with the Older Dryas and began and ended quite abruptly The cold periods have been recognized in sequence and relative magnitude in paleoclimatic records from Greenland ice cores European lacustrine sediments Atlantic Ocean sediments and the Cariaco Basin Venezuela 21 22 Examples of older Younger Dryas like events have been reported from the ends called terminations a of older glacial periods Temperature sensitive lipids long chain alkenones found in lake and marine sediments are well regarded as a powerful paleothermometer for the quantitative reconstruction of past continental climates 25 page needed The application of alkenone paleothermometers to high resolution paleotemperature reconstructions of older glacial terminations have found that very similar Younger Dryas like paleoclimatic oscillations occurred during Terminations II and IV a If so the Younger Dryas is not the unique paleoclimatic event in terms of size extent and rapidity as it is often regarded to be 25 26 Furthermore paleoclimatologists and Quaternary geologists reported finding what they characterized as well expressed Younger Dryas events in the Chinese d18 O records of Termination III a in stalagmites from high altitude caves in Shennongjia area Hubei Province China 27 Various paleoclimatic records from ice cores deep sea sediments speleothems continental paleobotanical data and loesses show similar abrupt climate events which are consistent with Younger Dryas events during the terminations of the last four glacial periods see Dansgaard Oeschger event They argue that Younger Dryas events might be an intrinsic feature of deglaciations that occur at the end of glacial periods 27 28 29 Timing editAnalyses of stable isotopes from Greenland ice cores provide estimates for the start and end of the Younger Dryas The analysis of Greenland Summit ice cores as part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 and Greenland Icecore Project estimated that the Younger Dryas started about 12 800 ice calibrated years BP More recent work with stalagmites strongly suggests a start date of 12 870 30 years BP 30 consistent with the more recent North Greenland Ice core Project NGRIP ice core data 30 Depending on the specific ice core analysis consulted the Younger Dryas is estimated to have lasted 1 150 1 300 years 11 12 Measurements of oxygen isotopes from the GISP2 ice core suggest the ending of the Younger Dryas took place over a period of about 50 years 31 Other proxy data such as dust concentration and snow accumulation suggest an even more rapid transition lasting for 30 years or less 32 potentially as rapid as less than 20 years 31 Greenland experienced about 7 C 13 F of warming in just half a century 33 Total warming in Greenland was 10 4 C 18 7 F 34 The end of the Younger Dryas has been dated to around 11 550 years ago occurring at 10 000 BP uncalibrated radiocarbon year a radiocarbon plateau by a variety of methods mostly with consistent results Years ago Place11500 50 GRIP ice core Greenland 35 11530 40 60 Krakenes Lake western Norway 36 11570 Cariaco Basin core Venezuela 37 11570 German oak and pine dendrochronology 38 11640 280 GISP2 ice core Greenland 39 The International Commission on Stratigraphy put the start of the Greenlandian stage and implicitly the end of the Younger Dryas at 11 700 years before 2000 40 Although the start of the Younger Dryas is regarded to be synchronous across the North Atlantic region recent research concluded that the start of the Younger Dryas might be time transgressive even within there After an examination of laminated varve sequences Muschitiello and Wohlfarth found that the environmental changes that define the beginning of the Younger Dryas are diachronous in their time of occurrence according to latitude According to the changes the Younger Dryas occurred as early as around 12 900 13 100 calibrated years ago along latitude 56 54 N Further north they found that the changes occurred at roughly 12 600 12 750 calibrated years ago 41 nbsp Dryas stadialsAccording to the analyses of varved sediments from Lake Suigetsu Japan and other paleoenvironmental records from Asia a substantial delay occurred in the onset and the end of the Younger Dryas between Asia and the North Atlantic For example paleoenvironmental analysis of sediment cores from Lake Suigetsu in Japan found the Younger Dryas temperature decline of 2 4 C between 12 300 and 11 250 varve calibrated years BP instead of about 12 900 calibrated years BP in the North Atlantic region In contrast the abrupt shift in the radiocarbon signal from apparent radiocarbon dates of 11 000 radiocarbon years to radiocarbon dates of 10 700 10 600 radiocarbon years BP in terrestrial macrofossils and tree rings in Europe over a 50 year period occurred at the same time in the varved sediments of Lake Suigetsu However this same shift in the radiocarbon signal antedates the start of Younger Dryas at Lake Suigetsu by a few hundred years Interpretations of data from Chinese also confirm that the Younger Dryas East Asia lags the North Atlantic Younger Dryas cooling by at least 200 300 years Although the interpretation of the data is more murky and ambiguous the end of the Younger Dryas and the start of Holocene warming likely were similarly delayed in Japan and in other parts of East Asia 42 Similarly an analysis of a stalagmite growing from a cave in Puerto Princesa Subterranean River National Park Palawan the Philippines found that the onset of the Younger Dryas was also delayed there Proxy data recorded in the stalagmite indicate that more than 550 calibrated years were needed for Younger Dryas drought conditions to reach their full extent in the region and about 450 calibrated years to return to pre Younger Dryas levels after it ended 43 In the Orca Basin in the Gulf of Mexico a drop in sea surface temperature of approximately 2 4 0 6 C that lasted from 12 800 to 11 600 BP as measured by Mg Ca ratios in the planktonic foraminifer Globigerinoides ruber signifies the occurrence of the Younger Dryas in the Gulf of Mexico 44 Global effects editThe Younger Dryas was globally synchronous or very nearly so 45 However the magnitude of the drop in global mean surface temperature was modest the Younger Dryas was not a global relapse into peak glacial conditions 46 In Western Europe and Greenland the Younger Dryas is a well defined synchronous cool period 47 Cooling in the tropical North Atlantic may however have preceded it by a few hundred years South America shows a less well defined initiation but a sharp termination The Antarctic Cold Reversal appears to have started a thousand years before the Younger Dryas and has no clearly defined start or end Peter Huybers has argued that there is a fair confidence in the absence of the Younger Dryas in Antarctica New Zealand and parts of Oceania 48 Timing of the tropical counterpart to the Younger Dryas the Deglaciation Climate Reversal DCR is difficult to establish as low latitude ice core records generally lack independent dating over the interval An example of this is the Sajama ice core Bolivia for which the timing of the DCR has been pinned to that of the GISP2 ice core record central Greenland Climatic change in the central Andes during the DCR however was significant and was characterized by a shift to much wetter and likely colder conditions 49 The magnitude and abruptness of the changes would suggest that low latitude climate did not respond passively during the YD DCR Effects of the Younger Dryas were of varying intensity throughout North America 50 In western North America its effects were less intense than in Europe or northeast North America 51 however evidence of a glacial re advance 52 indicates that Younger Dryas cooling occurred in the Pacific Northwest Speleothems from the Oregon Caves National Monument and Preserve in southern Oregon s Klamath Mountains yield evidence of climatic cooling contemporaneous to the Younger Dryas 53 Other features include the following Replacement of forest in Scandinavia with glacial tundra which is the habitat of the plant Dryas octopetala Glaciation or increased snow in mountain ranges around the world Formation of solifluction layers and loess deposits in Northern Europe More dust in the atmosphere originating from deserts in Asia A decline in evidence for Natufian hunter gatherer permanent settlements in the Levant suggesting a reversion to a more mobile way of life 54 The Huelmo Mascardi Cold Reversal in the Southern Hemisphere ended at the same time Decline of the Clovis culture while no definitive cause for the extinction of many species in North America such as the Columbian mammoth as well as the Dire wolf Camelops and other Rancholabrean megafauna during the Younger Dryas has been determined climate change and human hunting activities have been suggested as contributing factors 55 Recently it has been found that these megafauna populations collapsed 1000 years earlier 56 North America edit Greenland edit Despite cold conditions Greenlandic glaciers retreated during the Younger Dryas 57 with the exception of some local glaciers in northern Greenland 58 This was most likely due to a weakening of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation AMOC 57 East edit The Younger Dryas is a period significant to the study of the response of biota to abrupt climate change and to the study of how humans coped with such rapid changes 59 The effects of sudden cooling in the North Atlantic had strong regional effects in North America with some areas experiencing more abrupt changes than others 60 A cooling and ice advance accompanying the transition into the Younger Dryas between 13 300 and 13 000 cal years BP has been confirmed with many radiocarbon dates from four sites in western New York State The advance is similar in age to the Two Creeks forest bed in Wisconsin 61 The effects of the Younger Dryas cooling affected the area that is now New England and parts of maritime Canada more rapidly than the rest of the present day United States at the beginning and the end of the Younger Dryas chronozone 62 63 64 65 Proxy indicators show that summer temperature conditions in Maine decreased by up to 7 5 C Cool summers combined with cold winters and low precipitation resulted in a treeless tundra up to the onset of the Holocene when the boreal forests shifted north 66 Vegetation in the central Appalachian Mountains east towards the Atlantic Ocean was dominated by spruce Picea spp and tamarack Larix laricina boreal forests that later changed rapidly to temperate more broad leaf tree forest conditions at the end of the Younger Dryas period 67 68 Conversely pollen and macrofossil evidence from near Lake Ontario indicates that cool boreal forests persisted into the early Holocene 68 West of the Appalachians in the Ohio River Valley and south to Florida rapid no analog vegetation responses seem to have been the result of rapid climate changes but the area remained generally cool with hardwood forest dominating 67 During the Younger Dryas the Southeastern United States was warmer and wetter than the region had been during the Pleistocene 68 60 69 because of trapped heat from the Caribbean within the North Atlantic Gyre caused by a weakened AMOC 70 Central edit Also a gradient of changing effects occurred from the Great Lakes region south to Texas and Louisiana Climatic forcing moved cold air into the northern portion of the American interior much as it did the Northeast 71 72 Although there was not as abrupt a delineation as seen on the Eastern Seaboard the Midwest was significantly colder in the northern interior than it was south towards the warmer climatic influence of the Gulf of Mexico 60 73 In the north the Laurentide Ice Sheet re advanced during the Younger Dryas depositing a moraine from west Lake Superior to southeast Quebec 74 Along the southern margins of the Great Lakes spruce dropped rapidly while pine increased and herbaceous prairie vegetation decreased in abundance but increased west of the region 75 72 Rocky Mountains edit Effects in the Rocky Mountain region were varied 76 77 In the northern Rockies a significant increase in pines and firs suggests warmer conditions than before and a shift to subalpine parkland in places 78 79 80 81 That is hypothesized to be the result of a northward shift in the jet stream combined with an increase in summer insolation 78 82 as well as a winter snow pack that was higher than today with prolonged and wetter spring seasons 83 There were minor re advancements of glaciers in place particularly in the northern ranges 84 85 but several sites in the Rocky Mountain ranges show little to no changes in vegetation during the Younger Dryas 79 Evidence also indicates an increase in precipitation in New Mexico because of the same Gulf conditions that were influencing Texas 86 West edit The Pacific Northwest region experienced 2 to 3 C of cooling and an increase in precipitation 87 69 88 89 90 91 Glacial re advancement has been recorded in British Columbia 92 93 as well as in the Cascade Range 94 An increase of pine pollen indicates cooler winters within the central Cascades 95 On the Olympic Peninsula a mid elevation site recorded a decrease in fire but forest persisted and erosion increased during the Younger Dryas which suggests cool and wet conditions 96 Speleothem records indicate an increase in precipitation in southern Oregon 90 97 the timing of which coincides with increased sizes of pluvial lakes in the northern Great Basin 98 Pollen record from the Siskiyou Mountains suggests a lag in timing of the Younger Dryas indicating a greater influence of warmer Pacific conditions on that range 99 but the pollen record is less chronologically constrained than the aforementioned speleothem record The Southwest appears to have seen an increase in precipitation as well also with an average 2 C of cooling 100 Europe edit Since 1916 and the onset and the subsequent refinement of pollen analytical techniques and a steadily growing number of pollen diagrams palynologists have concluded that the Younger Dryas was a distinct period of vegetational change in large parts of Europe during which vegetation of a warmer climate was replaced by that of a generally cold climate a glacial plant succession that often contained Dryas octopetala 101 The drastic change in vegetation is typically interpreted to be an effect of a sudden decrease in annual temperature unfavorable for the forest vegetation that had been spreading northward rapidly The cooling not only favored the expansion of cold tolerant light demanding plants and associated steppe fauna but also led to regional glacial advances in Scandinavia and a lowering of the regional snow line 11 The change to glacial conditions at the onset of the Younger Dryas in the higher latitudes of the Northern Hemisphere between 12 900 and 11 500 calibrated years BP has been argued to have been quite abrupt 32 It is in sharp contrast to the warming of the preceding Older Dryas interstadial Its end has been inferred to have occurred over a period of a decade or so 31 but the onset may have even been faster 102 Thermally fractionated nitrogen and argon isotope data from Greenland ice core GISP2 indicate that its summit was around 15 C 27 F colder during the Younger Dryas 32 103 than today In Great Britain the mean annual temperature was no higher than 1 C 1 8 F as indicated by the presence of permafrost 39 and beetle fossil evidence suggests that the mean annual temperature dropped to 5 C 23 F 103 and periglacial conditions prevailed in lowland areas and icefields and glaciers formed in upland areas 104 Sea ice influences on seasonality fostered exceptional aridity in Scotland 105 Nothing of the period s size extent or rapidity of abrupt climate change has been experienced since its end 32 In what is now Hesse the early part of the Younger Dryas saw the development of a multi channel braidplain During the later Younger Dryas this braidplain reverted back to a fluvial system of straight and meandering rivers akin to that which had been the norm during the Allerod oscillation 106 In the Dinaric Alps various lateral and terminal moraines have been dated to have been formed during the Younger Dryas and associated resurgence of glaciers 107 Evidence from the Jabllanica range indicates that aridity fostered continued glacial retreat despite the cold temperatures of the Younger Dryas 108 Middle East edit Anatolia was extremely arid during the Younger Dryas 109 110 No intensification of geomorphodynamic activity occurred around Gobekli Tepe at the terminus of the Younger Dryas 111 East Asia edit Pollen records from Lake Gonghai in Shanxi China show a major increase in aridity synchronous with the onset of the Younger Dryas believed by some scholars to be a consequence of a weakened East Asian Summer Monsoon EASM 112 Some studies however have concluded that the EASM instead strengthened during the Younger Dryas 113 Effects on agriculture edit The Younger Dryas is often linked to the Neolithic Revolution with the adoption of agriculture in the Levant 114 115 The cold and dry Younger Dryas arguably lowered the carrying capacity of the area and forced the sedentary early Natufian population into a more mobile subsistence pattern Further climatic deterioration is thought to have brought about cereal cultivation While relative consensus exists regarding the role of the Younger Dryas in the changing subsistence patterns during the Natufian its connection to the beginning of agriculture at the end of the period is still being debated 116 117 Sea level edit Based upon solid geological evidence consisting largely of the analysis of numerous deep cores from coral reefs variations in the rates of sea level rise have been reconstructed for the postglacial period For the early part of the sea level rise that is associated with deglaciation three major periods of accelerated sea level rise called meltwater pulses occurred They are commonly called meltwater pulse 1A0 for the pulse between 19 000 19 500 calibrated years ago meltwater pulse 1A for the pulse between 14 600 14 300 calibrated years ago meltwater pulse 1B for the pulse between 11 400 11 100 calibrated years ago The Younger Dryas occurred after meltwater pulse 1A a 13 5 m rise over about 290 years centered at about 14 200 calibrated years ago and before meltwater pulse 1B a 7 5 m rise over about 160 years centered at about 11 000 calibrated years ago 118 119 120 Finally not only did the Younger Dryas postdate both all of meltwater pulse 1A and predate all of meltwater pulse 1B it was a period of significantly reduced rate of sea level rise relative to the periods of time immediately before and after it 118 121 Possible evidence of short term sea level changes has been reported for the beginning of the Younger Dryas First the plotting of data by Bard and others suggests a small drop less than 6 m in sea level near the onset of the Younger Dryas There is a possible corresponding change in the rate of change of sea level rise seen in the data from both Barbados and Tahiti Given that this change is within the overall uncertainty of the approach it was concluded that a relatively smooth sea level rise with no significant accelerations occurred then 121 Finally research by Lohe and others in western Norway has reported a sea level low stand at 13 640 calibrated years ago and a subsequent Younger Dryas transgression starting at 13 080 calibrated years ago 122 They concluded that the timing of the Allerod low stand and the subsequent transgression were the result of increased regional loading of the crust and geoid changes were caused by an expanding ice sheet 123 which started growing and advancing in the early Allerod about 13 600 calibrated years ago well before the start of the Younger Dryas 122 Ocean circulation edit The Younger Dryas resulted in decreased ventilation of ocean bottom waters Cores from the western subtropical North Atlantic show that the ventilation age of the bottom water there was about 1 000 years twice the age of Late Holocene bottom waters from the same site around 1 500 BP 124 Cause editThe Younger Dryas has historically been thought to have been caused by significant reduction or shutdown of the North Atlantic Conveyor which circulates warm tropical waters northward as the consequence of deglaciation in North America and a sudden influx of fresh water from Lake Agassiz The lack of geological evidence for such an event 125 stimulated further exploration but no consensus exists on the precise source of the freshwater and in fact the freshwater pulse hypothesis has recently been called into question 6 Although originally the freshwater pathway was believed to be the Saint Lawrence Seaway 125 the lack of evidence for this route has led researchers to suggest alternative sources for the freshwater including a pathway along the Mackenzie River 126 127 128 deglacial water coming off of Scandinavia 129 the melting of sea ice 130 increased rainfall 131 or increased snowfall across the North Atlantic 132 The global climate would then have become locked into the new state until freezing removed the fresh water lid from the North Atlantic However simulations indicated that a one time flood could not likely cause the new state to be locked for 1 000 years Once the flood ceased the AMOC would recover and the Younger Dryas would stop in less than 100 years Therefore continuous freshwater input would be necessary to maintain a weak AMOC for more than 1 000 years A 2018 study proposed that the snowfall could be a source of continuous freshwater resulting in a prolonged weakened state of the AMOC 132 The lack of consensus regarding the origin of the freshwater combined with the lack of evidence for sea level rise during the Younger Dryas 133 are problematic for any hypothesis where the Younger Dryas was triggered by floodwater 6 7 It is often noted that the Younger Dryas is merely the last of 25 or 26 major climate episodes Dansgaard Oeschger events or D O events over the past 120 000 years These episodes are characterized by abrupt beginnings and endings with changes taking place on timescales of decades or centuries 134 135 The Younger Dryas is the best known and best understood because it is the most recent but it is fundamentally similar to the previous cold phases over the past 120 000 years 136 Based on the fact that the Younger Dryas is extremely similar in structure with previous cold phases not thought to have been caused by meltwater pulses it has been argued that understanding the causes of the Younger Dryas would benefit from examining the mechanisms used to explain D O events rather than relying on the meltwater hypothesis 136 Another idea is that a solar flare may have been responsible for the megafaunal extinction that occurred at approximately the same time as the Younger Dryas but that cannot explain the apparent variability in the timing of the extinction across all continents 137 138 The Younger Dryas impact hypothesis attributes the cooling to the impact of a disintegrating comet or asteroid but that idea is rejected by most experts 139 though it is promoted by pseudoscientific archaeology television 140 An increasingly well supported alternative to the meltwater trigger is that the Younger Dryas was triggered by volcanism Numerous papers now confidently link volcanism to a variety of cold events across the last two millennia 141 and the Holocene 142 and in particular several note the ability of volcanic eruptions to trigger climate change lasting for centuries to millennia 143 144 It was proposed that a high latitude volcanic eruption could have shifted atmospheric circulation sufficiently to increase North Atlantic sea ice growth and slow down AMOC subsequently leading to a positive cooling feedback and initiating the Younger Dryas 7 This perspective is now supported by evidence for volcanism coinciding with the start of the Younger Dryas from both cave deposits 9 and glacial ice cores 8 Particularly strong support comes from sulphur data from Greenland ice cores showing that the radiative forcing associated with the cluster of eruptions immediately preceding the Younger Dryas initiation exceeds the most volcanically active periods during the Common Era which experienced notable multidecadal scale cooling commonly attributed to volcanic effects 8 Notably the sulphur data strongly suggest that a very large and high latitude northern hemisphere eruption occurred 12 870 years ago 8 a date indistinguishable from the stalagmite derived onset of the Younger Dryas event 30 It is unclear which eruption was responsible for this sulphur spike but the characteristics are consistent with the Laacher See eruption as the source The eruption was dated to 12 880 40 years BP by varve counting sediment in a German lake 145 and to 12 900 560 years by 40Ar 39Ar dating 146 both of which are within dating uncertainites of the sulphur spike at 12 870 years BP and make the Laacher See eruption a possible trigger for the Younger Dryas However a new radiocarbon date challenges the previous dating for the Laacher See eruption moving it back to 13 006 years BP 147 but this date itself has been challenged as potentially having been affected by radiocarbon dead magmatic carbon dioxide which was not accounted for and made the date appear older than it was 148 Regardless of the ambiguity surrounding the date for the Laacher See eruption it almost certainly caused substantial cooling either immediately before the Younger Dryas event 7 148 or as one of the several eruptions which clustered in the 100 years preceding the event 8 A volcanic trigger for the Younger Dryas event also explains why there was little sea level change at the beginning of the event 133 Furthermore it is also consistent with previous work that links volcanism with D O events 149 150 and with the perspective that the Younger Dryas is simply the most recent D O event 136 It is worth noting that of the proposed Younger Dryas triggers the volcanic trigger is the only one with evidence that is almost universally accepted as reflecting the actual occurrence of the trigger No consensus exists that a meltwater pulse happened or that a bolide impact occurred prior to the Younger Dryas whereas the evidence of anomalously strong volcanism prior to the Younger Dryas event is now very strong 7 8 9 148 Outstanding questions include whether a short lived volcanic forcing can trigger 1 300 years of cooling and how background climate conditions affect the climate response to volcanism End of the Younger Dryas editThe end of the Younger Dryas was caused by an increase in carbon dioxide levels and a shift in Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation Evidence suggests that most of the increase in temperature between the Last Glacial Maximum and the Holocene took place in the immediate aftermath of the Oldest Dryas and Younger Dryas with there being comparatively little variations in global temperature within the Oldest and Younger Dryas periods and within the Bolling Allerod warming 151 See also edit8 2 kiloyear climate event Rapid global cooling around 8 200 years ago Preboreal oscillation Cooling episode within the preboreal Heinrich event Large groups of icebergs traverse the 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