Exposure-age constraints on the extent, timing and rate of retreat of the last Irish Sea ice stream

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 15-16, 2010, Pages 1844-1852

  McCarroll, Danny ^a   Stone, John O ^b   Ballantyne, Colin K ^c   Scourse, James D ^d   Fifield, L Keith ^e   Evans, David J A ^f   Hiemstra, John F ^a  

^a SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^d BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGE CONSTRAINTS; BRITISH-IRISH ICE SHEET; COSMOGENIC ISOTOPES; DEGLACIATIONS; ENGLAND; EXPOSURE AGE; ICE STREAMS; IRISH SEA; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; LATEGLACIAL; REORGANISATION; SCOTLAND; SEA LEVEL RISE; SOURCE AREA;

GLACIERS; HYDRAULICS; ISOTOPES; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

CHRONOLOGY; COSMOGENIC RADIONUCLIDE; DEGLACIATION; ICE MARGIN; ICE SHEET; ICE STREAM; INTERSTADIAL; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALEOENVIRONMENT; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; IRISH SEA; PRESELI MOUNTAINS; UNITED KINGDOM; WALES;

EID: 77954818614     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.04.002     Document Type: Article

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