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SUMMARY:The last British Ice Sheet
DESCRIPTION:given by Dr Bethan Davies (Royal Holloway\, University of London) \nAbstract: \nUnderstanding how the last British-Irish Ice Sheet behaved in response to external climatic forcing may be used as an analogue for how the Antarctic Ice Sheet may behave in the future. We can use these empirical datasets to calibrate numerical simulations and better understand ice-sheet response to climate and ocean forcing. During the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM)\, ice streams of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) controlled the ice discharge from various dispersal centres. Deglaciation was characterised by shifts in ice-divide location and changes in internal ice-sheet dynamics\, resulting in substantial flow switches and significant ice-stream reconfiguration\, and hence modification of their landform signatures. We present new geomorphological mapping and 10Be cosmogenic nuclide ages from Northern England (Stainmore Gap\, Eden Valley and Vale of York)\, that constrain regional dynamic ice-stream retreat following the LGM. We identify complex decoupling of competing ice lobes\, characterised by early retreat of the North Sea Lobe and a minor re-advance of Stainmore ice prior to ~20 ka. This was followed by rapid recession of the central Stainmore Gap\, contemporaneous with the recession of the Tyne Gap Ice Stream. The northwards ice-flow reversal in the Vale of Eden was associated with the development of ice domes across the northern Pennines\, Howgill Fells and the Lake District. This shift in dispersal centres and ice divide migration likely triggered the rapid collapse of eastward ice stream corridors.  The central sector of the BIIS rapidly collapsed back up into upland dispersal centres between 20 to 17.5 ka.  This work highlights the role internal factors\, such as topography\, in driving ice-divide migration and flow switches during externally and climatically forced ice-sheet thinning. \nView this talk in the Members’ Section.
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