The Younger Dryas event was a brief return to cold conditions before the onset of interglacial warmth. An analysis of sediment records from Lake Kråkenes in Norway and the Nordic Seas shows that during the late Younger Dryas, Northern Europe underwent rapidly oscillating climate conditions, possibly related to the break-up of Nordic sea-ice.
- Jostein Bakke
- Øyvind Lie
- Trygve Nilsen