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gptkbp:instanceOf
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Pleistocene ice sheet
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gptkbp:alsoKnownAs
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gptkb:BIIS
gptkb:British-Irish_Ice_Cap
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gptkbp:contributedTo
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formation of Irish Sea
formation of glacial lakes
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gptkbp:evidence
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gptkb:England
gptkb:Isle_of_Man
gptkb:Northern_Ireland
gptkb:Republic_of_Ireland
gptkb:Scotland
gptkb:Wales
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https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label
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British-Irish Ice Sheet
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gptkbp:leftFeature
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drumlins
moraines
glacial erratics
eskers
outwash plains
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gptkbp:maximumExtentDate
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about 27,000 to 21,000 years ago
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gptkbp:meltingCaused
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sea level rise
isostatic rebound
formation of proglacial lakes
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gptkbp:range
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gptkb:Last_Glacial_Maximum
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gptkbp:relatedTo
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gptkb:Laurentide_Ice_Sheet
gptkb:Fennoscandian_Ice_Sheet
gptkb:Devensian_glaciation
gptkb:Weichselian_glaciation
gptkb:Midlandian_glaciation
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gptkbp:retreated
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about 19,000 to 15,000 years ago
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gptkbp:servesArea
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gptkb:Celtic_Sea
gptkb:Great_Britain
gptkb:Ireland
gptkb:Irish_Sea
gptkb:Isle_of_Man
parts of the North Sea
parts of the English Channel
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gptkbp:studiedBy
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remote sensing
radiocarbon dating
cosmogenic nuclide dating
seismic surveys
glacial geomorphology
Quaternary geologists
sediment cores
bathymetric mapping
paleoglaciology
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gptkbp:thickness
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over 1 km in some areas
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gptkbp:bfsParent
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gptkb:Fennoscandian_Ice_Sheet
gptkb:last_Ice_Age
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gptkbp:bfsLayer
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7
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