Recessional moraines in nearshore waters, northern Scotland

First paragraph: Suites of relatively small, similar-sized and regularly spaced sediment ridges are commonly found fronting the termini of modern tidewater glaciers in fjords and marine embayments. These ice-flow transverse subaqueous moraine ridges, sometimes referred to as De Geer moraines, record...

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Published in:Geological Society, London, Memoirs
Main Authors: Bradwell, Tom, Stoker, Martyn
Other Authors: Dowdeswell, JA, Canals, M, Jakobsson, M, Todd, BJ, Dowdeswell, EK, Hogan, KA, Biological and Environmental Sciences, British Geological Survey, orcid:0000-0003-0947-3309
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Geological Society of London 2016
Subjects:
Ice Sheet
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1893/24900
https://doi.org/10.1144/M46.13
http://mem.lyellcollection.org/content/46/1/63
http://dspace.stir.ac.uk/bitstream/1893/24900/1/BRADWELL_ASGL_2pp_REVISED.pdf
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Summary:First paragraph: Suites of relatively small, similar-sized and regularly spaced sediment ridges are commonly found fronting the termini of modern tidewater glaciers in fjords and marine embayments. These ice-flow transverse subaqueous moraine ridges, sometimes referred to as De Geer moraines, record the incremental retreat of the ice front grounding-line over time (De Geer 1889;Lindén & Möller 2005). The distribution and pattern of well-preserved recessional moraines in nearshore waters around Scotland provides insight into the pattern, timing and style of retreat of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet (Bradwellet al.2008a,b;Stokeret al.2009).

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