Ice-rafting from the British–Irish ice sheet since the earliest Pleistocene (2.6 million years ago): implications for long-term mid-latitudinal ice-sheet growth in the North Atlantic region

Thierens, Mieke; Pirlet, H.; Colin, Christophe; Latruwe, Kris; Vanhaecke, Frank; Lee, Jonathan R.; Stuut, Jan‐Berend; Titschack, Jürgen; Huvenne, Veerle A.I.; Dorschel, Boris; Wheeler, A.; Henriet, J.-P.

doi:10.1016/j.quascirev.2010.12.020

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“…During this time the depositional evolution was strongly influenced by climatic variations and resulting sea-level changes (Funnell, 1996;Overeem et al, 2001;Kuhlmann & Wong, 2008;Thöle et al, 2014). Glaciation occurred periodically in the region from the Plio-Pleistocene boundary times and through the later Pleistocene (Thierens et al, 2012;Ottesen et al, 2014;Sejrup et al, 1995) causing landscape remodelling and frequent reorganisation of drainage systems on adjacent land areas (cf. Gibbard & Cohen, 2015;Cohen et al, 2014).…”

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Filling the North Sea Basin: Cenozoic sediment sources and river styles

Gibbard¹,

Lewin²

2016

Geol. Belg.

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ABSTRACT. The history of the infilling of the North Sea is outlined, with particular focus on sediment sources and river inputs. In simple terms (for the detail is complex), these sources changed from domination by northwesterly sources from the Shetland area (Paleocene to Eocene), to a geographically more uniform basin-centred pattern, and then northerly input following Fennoscandian uplift (Oligocene and Neogene). Baltic inputs followed via an 'Eridanos (Baltic) River' (Miocene), with cold-climate coarser sediment inputs, and lacustrine episodes resulting from ice damming (Pleistocene). River styles in each of these phases are discussed, with the Cenozoic at first being dominated by low energy fluvial deposition (channel sands, chemically weathered clays, and organic sedimentation) in fluctuating climates. Cold climates in the latest Neogene and Quaternary are seen as major determinant of a change in fluvial style, though these are also associated with tectonic effects, as in Scandinavia. The mediating role of vegetation, relating also to temperature and precipitation, is also likely to have been significant. Narrow valley incision followed the Middle Pleistocene Transition, as well as an increasing importance of Rhine-Meuse sources that had begun earlier.

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Section: Pleistocenementioning

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Filling the North Sea Basin: Cenozoic sediment sources and river styles

Gibbard¹,

Lewin²

2016

Geol. Belg.

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“…After 1.5 Ma the ice-sheet in the SW Barents Sea first reached the shelf edge (Solheim et al, 1998), and an advance of the Scandinavian ice-sheet into the northern North Sea Basin occurred ~1.1 Ma (Sejrup et al, 2000). Increased ice-rafting from the British and Irish ice-sheet developed from 1.2 Ma (Thierens et al, 2012).…”

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Pleistocene sea-surface temperature evolution: Early cooling, delayed glacial intensification, and implications for the mid-Pleistocene climate transition

McClymont

Sosdian

Rosell-Melé

et al. 2013

Earth-Science Reviews

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Citation for published item:w glymontD iFvF nd osdi nD FwF nd osellEwel¡ e D eF nd osenth lD F @PHIQA 9i rly leisto ene se Esurf e temper ture trends X e rly oolingD gl i l intensi( tionD nd impli tions for the midE leisto ene lim te tr nsitionF9D i rthEs ien e reviewsFD IPQ F ppF IUQEIWQF Further information on publisher's website:httpXGGdxFdoiForgGIHFIHITGjFe rs irevFPHIQFHRFHHT Publisher's copyright statement: NOTICE: this is the author's version of a work that was accepted for publication in Earth-science reviews. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be re ected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A de nitive version was subsequently published in Earth-science reviews. 123, 2013, 10.1016/j.earscirev.2013.04.006 Additional information: Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-pro t purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. This is a PDF file of an unedited manuscript that has been accepted for publication. As a service to our customers we are providing this early version of the manuscript. The manuscript will undergo copyediting, typesetting, and review of the resulting proof before it is published in its final form. Please note that during the production process errors may be discovered which could affect the content, and all legal disclaimers that apply to the journal pertain.A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T A C C E P T E D M A N U S C R I P T ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT2 AbstractThe mid-Pleistocene climate transition (MPT) is defined by the emergence of high amplitude, quasi-100 ka glacial-interglacial cycles from a prior regime of more subtle 41 ka cycles. This change in periodicity and amplitude cannot be explained by a change in 'external' astronomical forcing. Here, we review and integrate published records of sea-surface temperatures (SSTs) to assess whether a common global expression of the MPT in the surface ocean can be recognized, and examine our findings in light of mechanisms proposed to explain climate system reorganization across the MPT. Weshow that glacial-interglacial variability in SSTs is superimposed upon a longer-term cooling trend in oceanographic systems spanning the low-to high-latitudes. Regional Alongside the long-term SST cooling trends, quasi-100 ka cycles begin to emerge in both the SST and  18 O records at 1.2 Ma, and become dominant with the expansion of the ice-sheets at 0.9 Ma. We show that the intensified glacial-stage cooling is accompanied by...

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“…A minute analysis of ice-rafted debris has shed light on a stunning record of all glacial advances on the Irish mainland. Where the glacial record on land did not extend further than the two last episodes, all earlier traces having been erased by subsequent ice sheets, the deepwater mound succession faithfully recorded all ice rafting phases and allowed back-tracking the origin of the sediment load (Thierens et al, 2012).…”

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