Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum.

The BRITICE-CHRONO Project has generated a suite of recently-published radiocarbon ages from deglacial sequences offshore in the Celtic and Irish seas and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide and optically stimulated luminescence ages from adjacent onshore sites. These published data are integrated here w...

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Published in:Journal of Quaternary Science
Main Authors: Scourse, James D., Chiverrell, Richard C., Smedley, Rachel, Small, David, Burke, Matthew J., Saher, Margot, Van Landeghem, Katrien, Duller, G.A.T, O'Cofaigh, Colm, Bateman, Mark, Benetti, Sara, Bradley, Sarah L., Callard, Sarah Louise, Evans, David, Fabel, Derek, Jenkins, Geraint Thomas-Howard, McCarron, Stephen, Medialdea, Alicia, Moreton, Steven, Ou, Xianjiao, Praeg, Daniel, Roberts, David H., Roberts, Helen M., Clark, Chris
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: 2021
Subjects:
deglaciation
geochronology
geomorphology
ice stream
marine geology
Sea ice
Online Access:https://research.bangor.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutputs/maximum-extent-and-readvance-dynamics-of-the-irish-sea-ice-stream-and-irish-sea-glacier-since-the-last-glacial-maximum(66f281f9-33d5-4156-9774-38e4f38cce9c).html
https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3313
https://research.bangor.ac.uk/ws/files/37832631/2021_JQS.pdf
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Summary:The BRITICE-CHRONO Project has generated a suite of recently-published radiocarbon ages from deglacial sequences offshore in the Celtic and Irish seas and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide and optically stimulated luminescence ages from adjacent onshore sites. These published data are integrated here with new geochronological data in an updated Bayesian analysis that enables reconstruction of ice retreat dynamics across the basin. Patterns and changes in pace of deglaciation are conditioned more by topographic constraints and internal ice dynamics than external controls. The data indicate a major but rapid and very short-lived extensive thin ice advance of the Irish Sea Ice Stream (ISIS) more than 300 km south of St George’s Channel to a marine calving margin at the shelf break at 25.5 ka; this may have been preceded by extensive ice accumulation plugging the constriction of St George’s Channel. The release event between 25 and 26 ka is interpreted to have stimulated fast ice streaming and diverted ice to the west in the northern Irish Sea into the main axis of the marine ISIS away from terrestrial ice terminating in the English Midlands, a process initiating ice stagnation and the formation of an extensive dead ice landscape in the Midlands.

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