10.6084/m9.figshare.3453380.v1 Greg E. Downing Greg E. Downing Sidney R. Hemming Sidney R. Hemming Anne Jost Anne Jost Martin Roy Martin Roy <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar hornblende provenance clues about Heinrich event 3 (H3) Geological Society of London 2016 North Atlantic IRD belt marine sediment cores H 3 EW Heinrich event 3 North Atlantic location Hudson Strait IRD event hornblende Ar Geology 2016-06-21 11:22:01 Dataset https://geolsoc.figshare.com/articles/dataset/_sup_40_sup_Ar_sup_39_sup_Ar_hornblende_provenance_clues_about_Heinrich_event_3_H3_/3453380 <p>Iceberg discharges into the North Atlantic are important sources of fresh water, and the sediments they deposit can provide constraints on which sectors of different ice sheets were contributing icebergs. <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar ages of sand-sized hornblende grains provide useful constraints on IRD (ice-rafted detritus) source areas. </p> <p>Heinrich events are intervals of anomalously high percentages of IRD in marine sediment cores of the North Atlantic IRD belt. In contrast to the others, Heinrich event 3 (H3) records a significantly lower flux of IRD. This study compares <sup>40</sup>Ar/<sup>39</sup>Ar hornblende age distributions from the interval around and including H3 in giant gravity core EW9303-GGC31 from Orphan Knoll, in the southern part of the Labrador Sea, with piston core V28-82 in the eastern part of the North Atlantic IRD belt. Collectively, these results confirm that H3 represents a Hudson Strait IRD event, but that it was smaller than during H1, H2, H4 and H5, and therefore comprises only a small fraction of the detritus at the eastern North Atlantic location of V28-82. These results support a previously published interpretation of across-strait ice flow during H3 at Hudson Strait. </p>