The Glacial History of Donegal and its Adjacent Continental Shelf During the Midlandian Glaciation

P Dunlop

The Glacial History of Donegal and its Adjacent Continental Shelf During the Midlandian Glaciation

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Original language	English
Title of host publication	A Donegal Atlas: Multi-disciplinary Perspectives on Ancient and Modern Landscapes
Editors	J Mac Laughlin, S Beattie
Place of Publication	Cork
Publisher	Cork University Press
Pages	38-47
ISBN (Print)	978 1859 1849 43
Publication status	Published - 1 Apr 2013

Bibliographical note

Reference text: Ballantyne, C.K., McCarroll, D., Stone, J.O., 2007. The Donegal ice dome, northwest Ireland: dimensions and chronology, Journal of Quaternary Science 22, 773-783.
Benetti, S., Dunlop, P. and O Cofaigh, C. (2010) Glacial and glacially-related features on the continental margin of northwest Ireland mapped from marine geophysical data, v2010, 14-29. 10.4113/jom.2010.1092.
Charlesworth, J.K. 1924. The glacial geology of north-west Ireland. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 36B, 174-314.
Clark, J., McCabe, A. M., Schnabel, C., Clark, P. U., Freeman, S., Maden, C. & Xu, S. 2009. 10Be chronology of the last deglaciation of County Donegal, northwestern Ireland. Boreas, Vol. 38, pp. 111–118.
Dunlop, P., Sachetti, F, Benetti, S., Ó Cofaigh, C. In press. Mapping Ireland’s glaciated continental margin. In Geomorphological Mapping: a professional handbook of techniques and applications: Developments in Earth Surface Processes Smith, M., Paron., Griffiths, J.S. (eds) Elsevier.
Dunlop, P, Shannon, R, McCabe, M, Quinn, R and Doyle, E (2010) Marine geophysical evidence for ice sheet extension and recession on the Malin Shelf: New evidence for the western limits of the British Irish Ice Sheet. Marine Geology, 276 (1-4).
Greenwood, S.L. and Clark, C.D, 2009. Reconstructing the last Irish Ice Sheet 2: a geomorphologically-driven model of ice sheet growth, retreat and dynamics. Quaternary Science Reviews, 28, 3101-3123.
McCabe, A.M. 1995. Quaternary Geology, in Northwest Donegal, Wilson P., (ed), Field Guide No. 19, Irish Association for Quaternary Studies, Dublin; 15-20.
McCabe, A.M. 2008. Glacial Geology and Geomorphology: The Landscapes of Ireland. Dunedin Academic Press Ltd, Edinburgh, 274 pp.
McCabe, A.M., Clark, P.U., 1998. Ice-sheet variability around the North Atlantic Ocean during the last deglaciation. Nature 392, 373-377.
McCabe, A.M. and Clark, P.U. 2003. Deglacial chronology from County Donegal, Ireland: Implications for deglaciation of the British-Irish Ice Sheet. Journal of the Geological Society of London 160, 847-855.
McCabe and Dunlop, 2006 (2006) The Last Glacial Termination in Northern Ireland. Geological Survey of Northern Ireland. ISBN 0-85272-529-9.
McCabe, A.M., Knight, J., McCarron, S.G., 1998. Evidence for Heinrich event 1 in the British Isles. Journal of Quaternary Science 13: 549-568.
McCabe, A. M., Clark, P. U. and Clark, J. 2005. AMS 14C dating of deglacial events in the Irish Sea Basin and other sectors of the British-Irish ice sheet. Quaternary Science Reviews 24, 1673-1690.
McCabe, A. M., Clark, P. U., Clark, J. Dunlop, P. 2007. Radiocarbon constraints on readvances of the British-Irish ice sheet in the northern Irish Sea basin during the last deglaciation. Quaternary Science Reviews 26, 1204-1211.
Ó Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J.A., Evans, J., Larter, R.D., 2008. Geological constraints on Antarctic Palaeo-ice stream retreat. Earth Surface Processes and Landforms 33, 513-525.
Ó Cofaigh, C., Dunlop, P. Benetti, S., In press. Marine geophysical evidence for Late Pleistocene ice sheet extent and recession off northwest Ireland, Quaternary Science Reviews. doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.02.005.
Stephens, N and Synge, F.M. 1965. Late-Pleistocene shorelines and drift limits in North Donegal. Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 64B, 131-153.
Synge, F.M. 1969. The Wurm ice limit in west of Ireland. In Wright, H.E.Jr (ed) Quaternary Geology and Climate, 89-92. National Academy of Sciences, Washington, D.C.
Synge, F.M. 1978. Pleistocene events. In Davies, G.L.H & Stephens (eds) Ireland, 115-180. Methuen & Co., London.
Wilson, P. 1989. Nature, origin and age of Holocene Aeolian sand on Muckish Mountain, Co. Donegal, Ireland. Boreas 18: 159-168.
Wilson, P. 2004. Relict rock glaciers, slope failure deposits, or polygenetic features? A re-assessment of some Donegal debris landforms. Irish Geography 37, 1-11.

Keywords

Glaciation
Ice sheet
Donegal
continental shelf

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