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Finlayson, Andrew; Fabel, Derek; Bradwell, Tom; Sugden, David. |
The boundary conditions that govern ice sheet dynamics can change significantly with the development of marine margins. This paper uses the glacial landscape in western Scotland to reconstruct changes in the British-Irish Ice Sheet that accompanied the growth and decay of a marine sector over the Malin Shelf. Ice advanced from a restricted mountain ice sheet with tidewater margins after similar to 35 ka BP, and reached the continental shelf in similar to 7 ka (average rate of similar to 30 m a(-1)). Early ice flow had been directed through north-south, geologically controlled, over-deepened fjords that were carved during previous 'restricted' glaciations. This flow regime was abandoned with development of the Malin Shelf ice sheet sector; ice flow... |
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Palavras-chave: British-Irish Ice Sheet; Glacial landscape; Palaeoglaciology; Marine terminating; Malin Shelf. |
Ano: 2014 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00291/40240/83001.pdf |
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