Striae at St. Mullin's Cave, County Kilkenny, southern Ireland: Their origin and chronological significance

Geomorphology

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 91-96

  Mc Cabe, A M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ice sheet variability; Late Midlandian; Southern Ireland end moraine; Striae

Indexed keywords

GLACIAL EROSION; ICE FLOW; MORAINE; STRIAE;

IRELAND, COUNTY KILKENNY, ST. MULLIN'S CAVE;

EID: 0031815180     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(97)00093-7     Document Type: Article

References (31)

1. Alley, R.B., 1989. Water pressure coupling of sliding and bed deformation, II. Velocity depth profiles. J. Glaciol 35, 119-129.
2. Bond, G., Lotti, R., 1995. Iceberg discharges into the North Atlantic on a millennial time scale during the last deglaciation. Science 267, 1005-1010.
3. 2 and land albedo on the climate of the last glacial maximum. Clim. Dyn. 1, 87-99.
4. Carville Lewis, H., 1894. Papers and notes on the Glacial Geology of Great Britain and Ireland. Longman, Green and Co., London. 649 pp.
5. Chamberlin, T.C., 1888. The rock-scourings of the great ice invasions. U.S. Geol. Surv., Annu. Rep. 7, 147-248.
6. Charlesworth, J.K., 1928. The glacial retreat from central and southern Ireland. Quat. J. Geol. Soc. London 84, 293-344.
7. Clark, P.U., 1994. Unstable behavior of the Laurentide ice sheet over deforming sediment and its implications for climate change. Quat. Res. 41, 19-25.
8. Colhoun, E.A., 1971. The glacial stratigraphy of the Sperrin mountains and its relation to the stratigraphy of northwest Ireland. Proc. R. Ir. Acad. 71B, 37-52.
9. Coxon, P., 1993. Irish Pleistocene biostratigraphy. Ir. J. Earth Sci. 12, 83-105.
10. Dansgaard, W., Johnsen, S.J., Clausen, H.B., Dahl-Jensen, D., Gundestrup, N.S., Hammer, C.V., Hvidberg, C.S., Steffensen, J.P., Sveinbjovnsdottir, A.E., Jouzel, J., Bond, G., 1993. Evidence for general instability of past climate from a 250 kyr ice core record. Nature 364, 218-220.
11. Eyles, N., Mc Cabe, A.M., 1989. The late Devensian (< 22,000 BP) Irish Sea basin: The sedimentary record of a collapsed ice sheet margin. Quat. Sci. Rev. 8, 304-351.
12. Farrington, A., 1965. A note on the correlation of some of the glacial drifts of the south of Ireland. Ir. Natl. J. 15, 29-33.
13. Finch, T.F., Synge, F.M., 1966. The drifts and soils of west Clare and the adjoining parts of counties Kerry and Limerick. Ir. Geogr. 5, 161-172.
14. Fronval, T., Jansen, E., Bloemendal, J., Johnsen, S., 1995. Oceanic evidence for coherent fluctuations in Fennoscandinavian and Laurentide ice sheets on millennium timescales. Nature 374, 443-446.
15. Iverson, N.R., 1991. Morphology of glacial striae: implications for abrasion of glacier beds and fault surfaces. Geol. Soc. Am. Bull. 103, 1308-1316.
16. Lawn, B.R., Wilshaw, R., 1975. Review of indentation fracture. Principles and applications. J. Mat. Sci. 10, 1049-1081.
17. Lowe, J.J., Walker, M.J.C., 1984. Reconstructing Quaternary Environments. Longman, London, 389 pp.
18. MacAyeal, D.R., 1993. Growth/purge oscillations of the Laurentide ice sheet as a cause of the North Atlantic's Heinrich events. Palaeoceanography 8, 775-784.
19. Mc Cabe, A.M., 1996. Dating and rhythmicity from the last deglacial cycle in the British Isles. J. Geol. Soc. London 153, 499-502.
20. Mc Cabe, A.M., O'Cofaigh, C., 1996. Upper Pleistocene facies sequences and relative sea-level trends along the south coast of Ireland. J. Sediment. Res. 66, 376-390.
21. Mc Cabe, A.M., Eyles, N., Haynes, J.R., Bowen, D.Q., 1990. Biofacies and sediments in an emergent Late Pleistocene glaciomarine sequence, east central Ireland. Mar. Geol. 94, 23-26.
22. Menzies, J., 1995. Modern Glacial Environments: Processes, Dynamics and Sediments. Butterworth-Heinemann, Oxford, 621 pp.
23. Mitchell, G.F., 1960. The Pleistocene history of the Irish Sea. Adv. Sci. 17, 313-325.
24. Mitchell, G.F., Penny, L.F., Shotton, F.W., 1973. A correlation of Quaternary deposits in the British Isles. Geol. Soc. London, Spec. Rep. 4, 99 pp.
25. Stone, J., Lambeck, K., Fifield, L.K., Evans, J.M., Cresswell, R.G., 1996. A Lateglacial age for the main rock platform, western Scotland. Geology 28, 707-710.
26. Synge, F.M., 1977. The coasts of Leinster. In: Kidson, C., Tooley, M.J. (Eds.), The Quaternary History of the Irish Sea. Seel House Press, Liverpool, pp. 199-222.
27. Synge, F.M., 1981. Quaternary glaciation and changes of sea-level in the south of Ireland. Geol. Mijnbouw 60, 305-315.
28. Warren, W., 1991. Fenitian (Midlandian) glacial deposits and glaciation in Ireland and the adjacent offshore regions. In: Ehlers, J., Gibbard, P., Rose, J. (Eds.), Glacial Deposits in Great Britain and Ireland. A.A. Balkema, Rotterdam, pp. 79-88.
29. Watts, W.A., 1977. The late Devensian vegetation of Ireland. Philos. Trans. R. Soc. London B280, 273-293.
30. Wright, W.B., 1914. The Quaternary Ice Age. London, Macmillan.
31. Wright, W.B., Muff, H.B., 1904. The pre-glacial raised beach of the south coast of Ireland. Sci. Proc. R. Dublin Soc. 10, 250-324.