Mid-Deglacial Cooling: The Younger Dryas
qThe mid-deglacial pause in ice melting was accompanied by a brief climate osscilation in
records near the
subpolar North Atlantic Ocean.
qTemperature in this region has warmed part of the way toward interglacial levels, but this
reversal brought
back almost full glacial cold.
qBecause an Arctic plant called “Dryas”
arrived during this episode, this mid-deglacial cooling is called “the Younger Dryas” event.
(from Earth’s Climate: Past and Future)