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Author : Clarke, G.; Leverington, D.; Teller, J.; and Dyke, A.
Date : 2003.
Title : Superlakes, Megafloods, and abrupt climate change.
Publication : Science
Issue : 301(5635):
Page(s) : 922-923.



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Abstract

As concern about the magnitude and rate of future climate change looms, it becomes increasingly important to understand the mechanisms underlying past abrupt climate change events. The event, which affected much of the Northern Hemisphere, appears to have been triggered by the sudden release of fresh water from a huge, glacier-dammed lake that had formed during the deglaciation of North America. The deglaciation of North America produced large volumes of glacial meltwater, which also appears to have influenced the circulation of the North Atlantic. Overflow waters from the resulting lake flowed through the Saint Lawrence Valley into the North Atlantic.

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