Using geological samples from the Ythan Estuary in Scotland, scientists have identified a melting ice sheet as the probable trigger of a major climate-change event just over 8,000 years ago. And the analysis - involving a team of geo-scientists from four Yorkshire universities led by Dr Graham Rush, who holds positions at both the University of Leeds and Leeds Beckett University - could hold clues as to how present-day ice loss in Greenland could affect the world's climate systems. More than 8,000 years ago, the North Atlantic and Northern Europe experienced significant cooling because of changes to a major system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC.

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