Growth and decay of a marine terminating sector of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet: A geomorphological reconstruction

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 83, Issue , 2014, Pages 28-45

  Finlayson, Andrew ^a,c   Fabel, Derek ^b   Bradwell, Tom ^a   Sugden, David ^c  

^a BRITISH GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

British Irish Ice Sheet; Glacial landscape; Malin Shelf; Marine terminating; Palaeoglaciology

Indexed keywords

BRITISH-IRISH ICE SHEET; GLACIAL LANDSCAPES; MALIN SHELF; MARINE TERMINATING; PALAEOGLACIOLOGY;

GLACIAL GEOLOGY; GLACIERS;

ICE;

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; GLACIAL LANDFORM; GLACIOLOGY; ICE FLOW; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG CALVING; RECONSTRUCTION; SUBGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; TIDEWATER GLACIER; UPLAND REGION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; MALIN SHELF; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84888041813     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.009     Document Type: Article

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