Description
Working with a sediment core retrieved from the deepest basin of Narsaq Sound (60°56.200'N, 46°09.300'W) in southern Greenland, the authors were able to infer various "glacio-marine environmental and climatic changes" that had occurred over the prior 8,000 years. This work revealed the existence of two periods (2.3-1.5 ka and 1.2-0.8 ka) that, as they describe it, "appear to coincide roughly with the 'Medieval Warm Period' and 'Roman Warm Period'," while they identified the colder period that followed the Medieval Warm Period as the Little Ice Age and the colder period that preceded it as the Dark Ages Cold Period.