Bond event

noun

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

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Meanings

nounBond event (plural Bond events)

plural Bond events

  1. 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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Bond event. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bond%20event

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“Bond event.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Bond%20event. Accessed November 2, 2026.

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