A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland
Terrestrial and marine subglacial landforms in eastern Scotland are used to evaluate previously unsubstantiated notions of ice streaming within the British Ice Sheet (BIS) in this area during the last glacial cycle. Employing both regional and local-scale data sets, we describe onshore landform-sedi...
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ftnerc:oai:nora.nerc.ac.uk:577 2024-06-09T07:46:46+00:00 A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland Golledge, Nicholas Stoker, Martyn 2006 http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/577/ http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/tandf/sbor/2006/00000035/00000002/art00006 https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480500456040 unknown Golledge, Nicholas; Stoker, Martyn. 2006 A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland. Boreas, 35. 13, pp. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480500456040 <https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480500456040> Glaciology Earth Sciences Publication - Article PeerReviewed 2006 ftnerc https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480500456040 2024-05-15T08:39:04Z Terrestrial and marine subglacial landforms in eastern Scotland are used to evaluate previously unsubstantiated notions of ice streaming within the British Ice Sheet (BIS) in this area during the last glacial cycle. Employing both regional and local-scale data sets, we describe onshore landform-sediment assemblages, offshore geomorphology and stratigraphy, and reconstructed palaeo-ice flow patterns. The results and their glaciological significance are discussed in the context of stratigraphical and geomorphological frameworks established by earlier workers, and are compared with modelled reconstructions for the BIS in this area. We conclude that the Main Late Devensian ice sheet in eastern Scotland hosted a zone of fast-flowing ice at least 100 km long and 45 km wide, akin to a contemporary ice stream. This sector / the Strathmore Ice Stream / flowed through a combination of basal sliding on meltwater-lubricated rigid beds and by deforming unconsolidated basal substrates Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Natural Environment Research Council: NERC Open Research Archive Boreas 35 2 231 243 |
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Terrestrial and marine subglacial landforms in eastern Scotland are used to evaluate previously unsubstantiated notions of ice streaming within the British Ice Sheet (BIS) in this area during the last glacial cycle. Employing both regional and local-scale data sets, we describe onshore landform-sediment assemblages, offshore geomorphology and stratigraphy, and reconstructed palaeo-ice flow patterns. The results and their glaciological significance are discussed in the context of stratigraphical and geomorphological frameworks established by earlier workers, and are compared with modelled reconstructions for the BIS in this area. We conclude that the Main Late Devensian ice sheet in eastern Scotland hosted a zone of fast-flowing ice at least 100 km long and 45 km wide, akin to a contemporary ice stream. This sector / the Strathmore Ice Stream / flowed through a combination of basal sliding on meltwater-lubricated rigid beds and by deforming unconsolidated basal substrates |
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A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland |
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A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland |
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A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland |
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A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland |
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A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland |
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palaeo-ice stream of the british ice sheet in eastern scotland |
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Golledge, Nicholas; Stoker, Martyn. 2006 A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland. Boreas, 35. 13, pp. https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480500456040 <https://doi.org/10.1080/03009480500456040> |
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