Explain why the formation of North Atlantic Deep Water might have played a role in causing the Younger Dryas event
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As North Atlantic water subducts, it is replaced by warm water from the South Atlantic. If the formation of deep water slows down, so could the transport of warm currents from the south. The lack of incoming warm weather could lead to a readvance of glaciers. It is thought that the Younger Dryas could have been caused by a slowdown of the formation of North Atlantic deep water.
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