The northern sector of the last British Ice Sheet: maximum extent and demise

• Published in: Earth-Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Bradwell, Tom, Stoker, Martyn S., Golledge, Nicholas R., Wilson, Christian K., Merritt, Jon W., Long, David, Everest, Jeremy D., Hestvik, Ole B., Stevenson, Alan G., Hubbard, Alun L., Finlayson, Andrew G., Mathers, Hannah E.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2008
• Subjects: Rona; Fennoscandian; Ice Sheet; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/226507/

Strongly divided opinion has led to competing, apparently contradictory, views on the timing, extent, flow configuration and decay mechanism of the last British Ice Sheet. We review the existing literature and reconcile some of these differences using remarkable new sea-bed imagery. This bathymetric...