THE CLIMATE OF THE YOUNGER-DRYAS IN THE NETHERLANDS

Authors
VANDENBERGHE J
Citation
J. Vandenberghe, THE CLIMATE OF THE YOUNGER-DRYAS IN THE NETHERLANDS, Geologie en mijnbouw, 74(3), 1995, pp. 245-249
Citations number
21
Categorie Soggetti
Geology,"Mining & Mineral Processing
Journal title
Geologie en mijnbouw → ACNP
ISSN journal
00167746
Volume
74
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
245 - 249
Database
ISI
SICI code
0016-7746(1995)74:3<245:TCOTYI>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
The Younger Dryas is to be considered as a biostratigraphic zone which in the Netherlands started 10 900 (radiocarbon) years ago and ended 1 0 200 BP. It is subdivided in two parts. The first half (up to 10 500 BP) is characterized by severe, continental conditions which resemble those at the end of the Pleniglacial; a permafrost was present. The se cond half shows milder conditions as a transition to the Holocene; per mafrost disappeared at about 10 500 BP.