A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland

Golledge, Nicholas; Stoker, Martyn. 2006 A palaeo-ice stream of the British ice sheet in eastern Scotland. Boreas, 35. 13, pp. 10.1080/03009480500456040

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Abstract/Summary

Terrestrial and marine subglacial landforms in eastern Scotland are used to evaluate previously unsubstantiated notions of ice streaming within the British Ice Sheet (BIS) in this area during the last glacial cycle. Employing both regional and local-scale data sets, we describe onshore landform-sediment assemblages, offshore geomorphology and stratigraphy, and reconstructed palaeo-ice flow patterns. The results and their glaciological significance are discussed in the context of stratigraphical and geomorphological frameworks established by earlier workers, and are compared with modelled reconstructions for the BIS in this area. We conclude that the Main Late Devensian ice sheet in eastern Scotland hosted a zone of fast-flowing ice at least 100 km long and 45 km wide, akin to a contemporary ice stream. This sector / the Strathmore Ice Stream / flowed through a combination of basal sliding on meltwater-lubricated rigid beds and by deforming unconsolidated basal substrates

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1080/03009480500456040
Programmes:	BGS Programmes > Geology and Landscape Northern
Additional Keywords:	Ice sheets ; Scotland -- East
NORA Subject Terms:	Glaciology Earth Sciences
Date made live:	24 Jun 2007 19:50 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/577

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