Harrison, S., Knight, J. and Rowan, A.V. (2015) The southernmost Quaternary niche glacier system in Great Britain. Journal of Quaternary Science, 30 (4). 325 - 334. ISSN 0267-8179
Abstract
Until recently, the scientific consensus has been that the uplands of south-west Britain remained unglaciated throughout the Quaternary, with glacial ice sheet limits lying to the north of the south-west peninsula. However, recent work has shown that small glaciers and ice caps existed in the uplands of Exmoor and Dartmoor during the late Quaternary, demonstrating that the consensus of an unglaciated south-west Britain requires considerable revision. Here we report geomorphological and sedimentary evidence supported by glacier-climate modelling for a Quaternary niche glacier from west Cornwall, south-west England. This niche glacier represents the southernmost such system from mainland Great Britain, and provides evidence for the presence of extra-glacial niche glaciers probably during the Last Glacial Maximum of the Devensian glaciation, and well outside the limits of the main British-Irish Ice Sheet.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This is an author produced version of a paper subsequently published in Journal of Quaternary Science. Uploaded in accordance with the publisher's self-archiving policy |
Keywords: | Cornwall; glacier modelling; niche glaciers; palaeoclimate; Quaternary |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > Department of Geography (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2015 12:30 |
Last Modified: | 20 Sep 2024 13:39 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Wiley |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1002/jqs.2772 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:87757 |