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Science 26 May 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5777, pp. 1146 - 1148
DOI: 10.1126/science.1123253
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Perspectives

GEOLOGY:
Was the Younger Dryas Triggered by a Flood?

Wallace S. Broecker

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.

The author is at the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA. E-mail: broecker{at}ldeo.columbia.edu

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