Oscillating retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet on the continental shelf offshore Galway Bay, western Ireland.

• Published in: Marine Geology
• Main Authors: Callard, S. Louise, Ó Cofaigh, Colm, Benetti, Sara, Chiverrell, Richard C., Van Landeghem, Katrien J.J., Saher, Margot H., Livingstone, Stephen J., Clark, Chris D., Small, David, Fabel, Derek, Moreton, Steven G.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2020
• Subjects: Porcupine Bank; Ice Sheet; Ice Shelf
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/29717/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/29717/1/29717.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2019.106087

During the Last Glacial Maximum, the British-Irish Ice Sheet extended across the continental shelf offshore of Galway Bay, western Ireland, and reached a maximum westward extent on the Porcupine Bank. New marine geophysical data, sediment cores and radiocarbon dates are used to constrain the style a...