Bond event

Meaning

Noun

A North Atlantic ice-rafting event of a kind tentatively linked to climate fluctuations in the Holocene.

Origin

Named after Gerard C. Bond of the Lamont–Doherty Earth Observatory at Columbia University, lead author of a 1997 paper that postulated the theory of 1470-year climate cycles in the Late Pleistocene and Holocene.

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