Recessional moraines in nearshore waters, northern Scotland
Suites of relatively small, similar-sized and regularly spaced sediment ridges are commonly found fronting the termini of modern tidewater glaciers in fjords and marine embayments. These ice-flow transverse subaqueous moraine ridges, sometimes referred to as De Geer moraines, record the incremental...
| Published in: | Geological Society, London, Memoirs |
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| Format: | Book Part |
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Geological Society of London
2016
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| Online Access: | http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/515807/ https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.13 |
| Summary: | Suites of relatively small, similar-sized and regularly spaced sediment ridges are commonly found fronting the termini of modern tidewater glaciers in fjords and marine embayments. These ice-flow transverse subaqueous moraine ridges, sometimes referred to as De Geer moraines, record the incremental retreat of the ice front grounding-line over time (De Geer 1889; Lindén & Möller 2005). The distribution and pattern of well-preserved recessional moraines in nearshore waters around Scotland provides insight into the pattern, timing and style of retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet (Bradwell et al. 2008a, b; Stoker et al. 2009). |
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