Younger Dryas: References & Edit History

General treatments of the Younger Dryas include Neil Roberts, The Holocene: An Environmental History (2014); Richard B. Alley, The Two-Mile Time Machine (2014); David E. Anderson, Andrew S. Goudie, and Adrian G. Parker, Global Environments Through the Quaternary: Exploring Environmental Change, 2nd. ed. (2013); and William James Burroughs, Climate Change in Prehistory: The End of the Reign of Chaos (2008).

Technical assessments of various aspects of the interval are found in Hans Renssen et al., “Multiple Causes of the Younger Dryas Cold Period,” Nature Geoscience, 8:946–950 (October 12, 2015); L.D. Keigwin et al., “Deglacial Floods in the Beaufort Sea Preceded Younger Dryas Cooling,” Nature Geoscience, 11:599–604 (July 9, 2018); Takuro Kobashia et al., “4 1.5 °C Abrupt Warming 11,270 Years Ago Identified from Trapped Air in Greenland Ice,” Earth and Planetary Science Letters, 268:397–407 (April 30, 2008); D.J. Kovanen and D.J. Easterbrook, “Timing and Extent of Allerød and Younger Dryas Age (ca. 12,500–10,000 ¹⁴C yr B.P.) Oscillations of the Cordilleran Ice Sheet in the Fraser Lowland, Western North America,” Quaternary Research, 57:208–224 (2002); and D.I. Benn and C.K. Ballantyne, “Palaeoclimatic Inferences from Reconstructed Loch Lomond Readvance Glaciers, West Drumochter Hills, Scotland,” Journal of Quaternary Science, 20:577–592 (2005).