British ice sheet dynamics inferred from North Atlantic ice-rafted debris records spanning the last 175,000 years

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Hibbert, Fiona D., Austin, Wiliam E.N., Leng, Melanie J., Gatliff, Robert W.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley-Blackwell 2010
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Antarctic; Greenland; Rockall Trough; The Antarctic; Antarc*; EPICA; Greenland ice core; ice core; Ice Sheet; Neogloboquadrina pachyderma; NGRIP; North Atlantic; Northeast Atlantic
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/9636/; http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/2507/home

Sediment core MD04-2822 from the Rockall Trough, northeast Atlantic, provides lithological evidence for the expansion of the British Ice Sheet (BIS) onto the Hebridean margin during both the penultimate (Marine Isotope Stage (MIS) 6/Wolstonian/Saalian) and last glaciations (Devensian/Weichselian). A...