Deglacial geochemical evidence of meltwater drainage into the Arctic from the Mackenzie Delta and Amundsen Gulf

Cores were recovered with a piston corer during USCGC Healy cruise HLY1302. Cores are characterized by high sedimentation rates of up to 1 m/ka and reach back until 15 ka and therefore the late Heinrich Stadial 1.

We also provide radiocarbon ages for sediment cores JPC-19 and JPC-9. With these high resolution records of the deglacial period we are capable to trace meltwater drainage of the decaying Laurentide Ice Sheet with a more or less pronounced Lake Agassiz source. The isotopic compositions were measured with a Neptune Plus at GEOMAR, Kiel, Germany.