Paleo Slide Set: Heinrich Events

This slide show explains that by understanding past climate variability, scientists hope to understand the course of future changes in the earth's climate system. This slide set outlines past climate variability by reconstructing abrupt climate changes in the Late Pleistocene, specifically sudden cold events known as Heinrich Events, which have occurred six times in the past 75,000 years involving the large scale discharge of icebergs into the North Atlantic Ocean. The set contains a comprehensive text and accompanying color photographs of icebergs, iceberg-rafted debris in marine sediment cores, and laboratory techniques with sediment cores. Detailed graphics and discussion of Heinrich events, their causes, and their climatic significance are also included. This set can be used as a comprehensive educational tool for studying current issues in oceanography and the implications of natural climate variability from the past to the future. Educational levels: High school, Undergraduate lower division, Undergraduate upper division