“…Their recognition in the sedimentary record and that of related ice-sheet margins, at macro-and micro-scales, are crucial to the interpretation of ice-sheet extent or to the understanding of icemarginal oscillations including diachronous ice-front stillstands as well as of links between glacier dynamics and climate (Powell and Cooper, 2002;Occhietti et al, 2011). Preserved glacial landsystems that have contributed to their characterisation in the Quaternary record (Shaw et al, 2000;Boulton et al, 2001;Lajeunesse and Allard, 2002;Ottesen et al, 2005;Boulton and Hagdorn, 2006;Occhietti, 2007;Evans, 2009;Winsemann et al, 2009;Jakobsson et al, 2012) are usually lacking for the identification of pre-Pleistocene ice-marginal systems. This is a severe limitation in our capacity to untangle former ice-sheet extents in deep time and in our capacity to propose sequence stratigraphic scenarios for related recessional ice-front development, whose associated deposits are nevertheless amongst the most abundant in the Earth glacial sedimentary record (Moncrieff and Hambrey, 1990;dos Santos et al, 1996;Von Brunn, 1996;Le Heron et al, 2006;Ghienne et al, 2007b).…”