Sedimentology of a late-Pleistocene submarine moraine complex, County Down, Northern Ireland

Auteurs :
McCABE, A. M.
DARDIS, G. F.
HANVEY, P. M.

Description :
Three major lithofacies associations found in the Killard Point moraine, County down, Northern Ireland, are attributed to ice-proximal glaciomarine resedimentation of glacigenic debris derived from a partially floating ice-shelf. From this it is suggested that late-Pleistocene deglaciation in the northern Irish Sea basin was conditioned by oceanic heat exchange mechanisms rather than climatic amelioration. (AJC).


Type de document :
Article de périodique

Source :
Journal of sedimentary petrology Lawrence, Kansas, 1984, vol. 54, n°. 3, p. 716-730, Références bibliographiques : 57 réf.

Date :
1984