Devensian Ice-Sheet history of the western North Sea
The ice masses of present-day Greenland and Antarctica are characterised by marine-terminating ice streams and outlet glaciers, which deliver the majority of ice to the surrounding ocean and have a large impact on the ice sheet stability and sea-level. Understanding the break-up of palaeo-ice sheets...
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ftunidurhamethes:oai:etheses.dur.ac.uk:12743 2023-05-15T14:04:17+02:00 Devensian Ice-Sheet history of the western North Sea GRIMOLDI, ELENA 2018 application/pdf http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12743/ http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12743/1/Devensian_Ice_Sheet_history_of_the_western_North_Sea.pdf unknown oai:etheses.dur.ac.uk:12743 http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12743/1/Devensian_Ice_Sheet_history_of_the_western_North_Sea.pdf GRIMOLDI, ELENA (2018) Devensian Ice-Sheet history of the western North Sea. Doctoral thesis, Durham University. http://etheses.dur.ac.uk/12743/ BIIS NSL North Sea Devensian deglaciation last glacial phase ice stream chronology geomorphology Thesis NonPeerReviewed 2018 ftunidurhamethes 2022-09-23T14:17:08Z The ice masses of present-day Greenland and Antarctica are characterised by marine-terminating ice streams and outlet glaciers, which deliver the majority of ice to the surrounding ocean and have a large impact on the ice sheet stability and sea-level. Understanding the break-up of palaeo-ice sheets and ice streams is thus considered crucial for understanding contemporary ice sheet behaviour and ice sheet response to global climate change. The history of the former eastern margin of the last British and Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) is still poorly understood, particularly in the western North Sea. The BIIS is known to have overrun the eastern coasts of England and Scotland at different times during the Pleistocene and to have extended offshore. It was drained by numerous ice streams, which experienced different phases of activity during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). However, despite recent improvements in the understanding of the onshore glacial history of the region, still little is known about the offshore sector. In particular, significant gaps remain in the knowledge of the deglacial history of the BIIS from the western North Sea, and of the dynamic behaviour of the North Sea Lobe (NSL) ice stream as it retreated from the offshore region. This research incorporates different bathymetric, seismic and sedimentological datasets collected in the western North Sea, to investigate the geomorphological and sedimentary imprint left on the seafloor by the passage of the BIIS and by the NSL during the last glacial phase. The findings provide new insights on the seafloor geomorphology and on the stratigraphic architecture of the Quaternary sediments of the area, and better reconstruct the advance and retreat behaviour of the NSL in the region. The results demonstrate that the geomorphological imprint found on the seafloor of the western North Sea can be ascribable to the action of the NSL, which was flowing from NW to SE. The presence of Grounding Zone Wedges and of glaciomarine sediments characterised by cold temperature ... Thesis Antarc* Antarctica Greenland Ice Sheet Durham University: Durham e-Theses Greenland |
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The ice masses of present-day Greenland and Antarctica are characterised by marine-terminating ice streams and outlet glaciers, which deliver the majority of ice to the surrounding ocean and have a large impact on the ice sheet stability and sea-level. Understanding the break-up of palaeo-ice sheets and ice streams is thus considered crucial for understanding contemporary ice sheet behaviour and ice sheet response to global climate change. The history of the former eastern margin of the last British and Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) is still poorly understood, particularly in the western North Sea. The BIIS is known to have overrun the eastern coasts of England and Scotland at different times during the Pleistocene and to have extended offshore. It was drained by numerous ice streams, which experienced different phases of activity during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM). However, despite recent improvements in the understanding of the onshore glacial history of the region, still little is known about the offshore sector. In particular, significant gaps remain in the knowledge of the deglacial history of the BIIS from the western North Sea, and of the dynamic behaviour of the North Sea Lobe (NSL) ice stream as it retreated from the offshore region. This research incorporates different bathymetric, seismic and sedimentological datasets collected in the western North Sea, to investigate the geomorphological and sedimentary imprint left on the seafloor by the passage of the BIIS and by the NSL during the last glacial phase. The findings provide new insights on the seafloor geomorphology and on the stratigraphic architecture of the Quaternary sediments of the area, and better reconstruct the advance and retreat behaviour of the NSL in the region. The results demonstrate that the geomorphological imprint found on the seafloor of the western North Sea can be ascribable to the action of the NSL, which was flowing from NW to SE. The presence of Grounding Zone Wedges and of glaciomarine sediments characterised by cold temperature ... |
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Devensian Ice-Sheet history of the western North Sea |
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