Ménot Guillemette, Bard Edouard, Rostek Frauke, Weijers Johan W H, Hopmans Ellen C, Schouten Stefan, Sinninghe Damsté Jaap S
CEREGE, Collège de France, UMR 6635, CNRS Université Aix-Marseille III, Europole de l'Arbois, BP 80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, France.
Science. 2006 Sep 15;313(5793):1623-5. doi: 10.1126/science.1130511.
During the Last Glacial Maximum, the sea-level lowstand combined with the large extent of the Fennoscandian and British ice sheets led to the funneling of European continental runoff, resulting in the largest river system that ever drained the European continent. Here, we show an abrupt and early reactivation of the European hydrological cycle at the onset of the last deglaciation, leading to intense discharge of the Channel River into the Bay of Biscay. This freshwater influx, probably combined with inputs from proglacial or ice-dammed lakes, dramatically affected the hydrology of the region, both on land and in the ocean.
在末次盛冰期，海平面的低位与芬诺斯堪的亚和不列颠冰盖的大面积存在相结合，导致欧洲大陆径流汇聚，形成了有史以来排出欧洲大陆的最大河系。在此，我们表明，在末次冰消期开始时，欧洲水文循环突然且早期重新活跃起来，导致英吉利海峡的河水大量排入比斯开湾。这种淡水涌入，可能与冰前湖或冰坝湖的水流相结合，对该地区陆地和海洋的水文状况都产生了巨大影响。
