Was the Younger Dryas Triggered by a Flood?

Broecker, Wallace S.

The author is at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. E-mail: [email protected]

10.1126/science.1123253

Science 312(5777):p 1146-1148, May 26, 2006.

Draining of a huge lake into the Northern Atlantic may have triggered a cold period ∼12,900 years ago. The route taken by the flood waters remains unknown.