Meltwater pulse 1B

Postglacial Sea level Rise Curve and Meltwater Pulses (MWP)

Meltwater pulse 1B (MWP1b) is the name used by Quaternary geologists, paleoclimatologists, and oceanographers for a period of either rapid or just accelerated post-glacial sea level rise that some hypothesize to have occurred between 11,500 and 11,200 calendar years ago at the beginning of the Holocene and after the end of the Younger Dryas.[1] Meltwater pulse 1B is also known as catastrophic rise event 2 (CRE2) in the Caribbean Sea.[2]

Other named, postglacial meltwater pulses are known most commonly as meltwater pulse 1A0 (meltwater pulse19ka), meltwater pulse 1A, meltwater pulse 1C, meltwater pulse 1D, and meltwater pulse 2. It and these other periods of proposed rapid sea level rise are known as meltwater pulses because the inferred cause of them was the rapid release of meltwater into the oceans from the collapse of continental ice sheets.[1]

  1. ^ a b Cronin, T.M. (2012) Rapid sea-level rise. Quaternary Science Reviews. 56:11-30.
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