TY - JOUR

T1 - Maximum extent and readvance dynamics of the Irish Sea Ice Stream and Irish Sea Glacier since the Last Glacial Maximum.

AU - Scourse, James D.

AU - Chiverrell, Richard C.

AU - Smedley, Rachel

AU - Small, David

AU - Burke, Matthew J.

AU - Saher, Margot

AU - Van Landeghem, Katrien

AU - Duller, G.A.T

AU - O'Cofaigh, Colm

AU - Bateman, Mark

AU - Benetti, Sara

AU - Bradley, Sarah L.

AU - Callard, Sarah Louise

AU - Evans, David

AU - Fabel, Derek

AU - Jenkins, Geraint Thomas-Howard

AU - McCarron, Stephen

AU - Medialdea, Alicia

AU - Moreton, Steven

AU - Ou, Xianjiao

AU - Praeg, Daniel

AU - Roberts, David H.

AU - Roberts, Helen M.

AU - Clark, Chris

PY - 2021/7

Y1 - 2021/7

N2 - The BRITICE-CHRONO Project has generated a suite of recently-published radiocarbon ages from deglacial sequences offshore in the Celtic and Irish seas and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide and optically stimulated luminescence ages from adjacent onshore sites. These published data are integrated here with new geochronological data in an updated Bayesian analysis that enables reconstruction of ice retreat dynamics across the basin. Patterns and changes in pace of deglaciation are conditioned more by topographic constraints and internal ice dynamics than external controls. The data indicate a major but rapid and very short-lived extensive thin ice advance of the Irish Sea Ice Stream (ISIS) more than 300 km south of St George’s Channel to a marine calving margin at the shelf break at 25.5 ka; this may have been preceded by extensive ice accumulation plugging the constriction of St George’s Channel. The release event between 25 and 26 ka is interpreted to have stimulated fast ice streaming and diverted ice to the west in the northern Irish Sea into the main axis of the marine ISIS away from terrestrial ice terminating in the English Midlands, a process initiating ice stagnation and the formation of an extensive dead ice landscape in the Midlands.

AB - The BRITICE-CHRONO Project has generated a suite of recently-published radiocarbon ages from deglacial sequences offshore in the Celtic and Irish seas and terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide and optically stimulated luminescence ages from adjacent onshore sites. These published data are integrated here with new geochronological data in an updated Bayesian analysis that enables reconstruction of ice retreat dynamics across the basin. Patterns and changes in pace of deglaciation are conditioned more by topographic constraints and internal ice dynamics than external controls. The data indicate a major but rapid and very short-lived extensive thin ice advance of the Irish Sea Ice Stream (ISIS) more than 300 km south of St George’s Channel to a marine calving margin at the shelf break at 25.5 ka; this may have been preceded by extensive ice accumulation plugging the constriction of St George’s Channel. The release event between 25 and 26 ka is interpreted to have stimulated fast ice streaming and diverted ice to the west in the northern Irish Sea into the main axis of the marine ISIS away from terrestrial ice terminating in the English Midlands, a process initiating ice stagnation and the formation of an extensive dead ice landscape in the Midlands.

KW - deglaciation

KW - geochronology

KW - geomorphology

KW - ice stream

KW - marine geology

U2 - 10.1002/jqs.3313

DO - 10.1002/jqs.3313

M3 - Article

VL - 36

SP - 780

EP - 804

JO - Journal of Quaternary Science

JF - Journal of Quaternary Science

SN - 1099-1417

IS - 5

ER -