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Dryas Categories: Plant stubs | Plants   Results from FactBites:   Station Information - Younger Dryas (244 words) The Younger Dryas was a sudden cold climate period lasting for about 1100-1300 calendar years during the final deglaciation of the Pleistocene. The prevailing theory holds that the Younger Dryas was caused by the shutdown of the Gulf Stream in response to a sudden influx of fresh water from deglaciation in North America. Replacement of forest in Scandinavia with glacial tundra (which is the habitat of the dryas plant).   More results at FactBites »