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TI Extent and retreat history of the Barra Fan Ice Stream offshore western Scotland and northern Ireland during the last glaciation
BT 
AF CALLARD, S. Louise
   COFAIGH, Colm O.
   BENETTI, Sara
   CHIVERRELL, Richard C.
   VAN LANDEGHEM, Katrien J. J.
   SAHER, Margot H.
   GALES, Jenny A.
   SMALL, David
   CLARK, Chris D.
   STEPHEN, J. Livingstone
   FABEL, Derek
   MORETON, Steven G.
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C1 Univ Durham, Dept Geog, Durham DH1 3LE, England.
   Ulster Univ, Sch Geog & Environm Sci, Coleraine BT52 1SA, Ireland.
   Univ Liverpool, Dept Geog, Liverpool, Merseyside, England.
   Bangor Univ, Sch Ocean Sci, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd, Wales.
   Univ Plymouth, Sch Biol & Marine Sci, Plymouth PL4 8AA, Devon, England.
   Univ Sheffield, Dept Geog, Sheffield S10 2TN, S Yorkshire, England.
   Univ Glasgow, Scottish Univ, Environm Res Ctr, E Kilbride G75 0QF, Lanark, Scotland.
   NERC, Radiocarbon Facil, E Kilbride G75 0QF, Lanark, Scotland.
C2 UNIV DURHAM, UK
   UNIV ULSTER, IRELAND
   UNIV LIVERPOOL, UK
   UNIV BANGOR, UK
   UNIV PLYMOUTH, UK
   UNIV SHEFFIELD, UK
   UNIV GLASGOW, UK
   NERC, UK
IF 4.641
TC 29
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00504/61588/65891.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR IMAGES 1-MD101
BO Marion Dufresne
DE ;British-Irish Ice Sheet;Glacimarine;Last glacial maximum;Radiocarbon dating;Ice-sheet retreat;Grounding-zone wedges
AB During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the marine-terminating Barra Fan Ice Stream (BFIS), a major conduit of the British Irish Ice Sheet (BITS), drained much of western Scotland and northwest Ireland with ice streaming onto the continental shelf of the Malin Sea. The extent and retreat history of this ice stream across the shelf, until now, is not well known. In particular, geochronological constraints on the history of this ice stream have thus far been restricted to deep-sea cores or terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide dating onshore, with ages across the shelf absent. To understand the possible external forcing factors acting on this marine terminating ice stream during retreat, improved geochronological constraint on its deglaciation is necessary. Here, we present new geophysical data, marine sediment cores and over forty radiocarbon dates to provide important constraints on maximum extent of the BFIS, as well as the timing and pattern of retreat back across the Malin Shelf. Dated moraines and grounding-zone wedges (GZW) seen in seafloor sub-bottom profiles provide evidence that the BFIS reached the Malin Shelf edge during the LGM and was at its maximum extent around 26.7 ka BP. The presence of two sets of GZWs suggests that the style of retreat was episodic. The new radiocarbon chronology shows that retreat from the shelf edge was underway by 25.9 ka BP, with the majority of the continental shelf ice free by 23.2 ka BP, and that glacimarine conditions were present in the Sea of Hebrides by 20.2 ka BP at the latest. Collectively, these results indicate that the majority of the Malin Shelf was free of grounded ice by similar to 21.5-20 ka BP, which is up to 4000 years earlier than previously reconstructed. We attribute this early deglaciation to high relative sea level caused by glacial isostatic depression when the BIIS reached its maximum extent promoting ice shelf and grounding line instability. Two deep troughs, forming reverse bed slopes, aided the continued retreat of the BFIS. This suggests that local ice loading and bed morphology can be significant controls on the destabilisation of a marine-terminating ice stream and can override the influence of ocean and atmospheric temperatures. 
PY 2018
PD DEC
SO Quaternary Science Reviews
SN 0277-3791
PU Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd
VL 201
UT 000452934700017
BP 280
EP 302
DI 10.1016/j.quascirev.2018.10.002
ID 61588
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