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Etymology

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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.

Noun

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Bond event (plural Bond events)

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