Abstract 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. 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages of sand-sized hornblende grains provide useful constraints on IRD (ice-rafted detritus) source areas. 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 40 Ar/ 39 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. Supplementary material: Appendix 1 is 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data from core EW9303-GGC31; Appendix 2 is grain counts across H3 from core V28-82; Appendix 3 is 40 Ar/ 39 Ar data from core V28-82; these are available at http://www.geolsoc.org.uk/SUP18631 .

The late glacial and deglacial history of the Southeastern Laurentide Ice Sheet involves the southward advance and subsequent northward retreat from southeastern Canada and the northeastern United States. Superposed on this advance and retreat are three major ice-rafting events associated with Heinrich events 2 and 1 (H2 and H1) and the Younger Dryas. Nd, Sr, and Pb isotopes were measured on the 63–150 μm, de-carbonated marine sediment for the period 24–10.5 14 C ka, from marine sediment core EW9303-GGC31, collected from the top of Orphan Knoll, a topographic high 550 km northeast of Newfoundland, Canada. In general, one of the problems with understanding ice-rafting records is the disparate provenance strategies that have been used in different studies. Nd and Sr isotopes have been widely used in the study of North Atlantic sediment provenance, and Pb isotopes and 40 Ar/ 39 Ar hornblende ages have also been used for provenance assessment in a number of studies. The new Nd, Sr, and Pb isotope data presented here are complementary to the published hornblende data from the same samples, and provide a data set that allows more confident comparison of this record with other published provenance studies. The results are consistent with reconstructions based on a combination of marine and land-based geomorphic observations.