British–Irish Ice Sheet

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The British–Irish Ice Sheet was a massive glacial ice sheet that covered most of Great Britain and Ireland during the last Ice Age, shaping much of the region’s present-day landscape.

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Label Occurrences
British–Irish Ice Sheet canonical 4
British–Irish Ice Cap 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Pleistocene ice sheet
Quaternary geological feature
glacial ice sheet
alsoKnownAs BIIS
British–Irish Ice Cap
contributedTo isostatic depression of the British Isles
postglacial isostatic rebound in Britain and Ireland
covered large parts of England
large parts of Wales
most of Ireland
most of Scotland
createdLandforms drumlins
eskers
fjords
glacial valleys
moraines
outwash plains
evidenceFrom moraines and erratics across Britain and Ireland
offshore seismic and core data on surrounding continental shelves
extendedOnto Celtic Sea shelf
linked to: Celtic Sea

Irish Sea basin
continental shelf of the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland
continental shelf of the North Sea
formedDuring Devensian glaciation
linked to: Last Glacial Period

Midlandian glaciation
linked to: Saalian glaciation

Weichselian glaciation
linked to: Last Glacial Period
importantFor reconstructing sea-level history around the British Isles
understanding past climate change in the North Atlantic region
influenced distribution of soils in Britain and Ireland
drainage patterns in Britain and Ireland
largelyDisappearedBy early Holocene
leftDeposits glaciofluvial sediments
glaciolacustrine sediments
till
locatedIn Great Britain
Ireland
North Atlantic region
maximumExtentApproximateAge around 27,000 to 21,000 years ago
maximumThicknessApproximate over 1,000 metres in some areas
meltwaterContributedTo sea-level rise at the end of the Pleistocene
modelledUsing ice-sheet models
partOf Last Glacial Maximum ice sheets
Northern Hemisphere ice sheets
retreatedDuring Late Glacial period
shaped present-day British landscape
present-day Irish landscape
studiedIn Quaternary science
timePeriod Last Glacial Maximum
Late Pleistocene
linked to: Last Glacial Period

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Fennoscandian Ice Sheet relatedTo British–Irish Ice Sheet
Last Glacial Maximum hasMajorIceSheet British–Irish Ice Sheet
British–Irish Ice Sheet alsoKnownAs British–Irish Ice Cap
linked to: British–Irish Ice Sheet
Last Glacial Period majorIceSheet British–Irish Ice Sheet
Barents–Kara Ice Sheet relatedTo British–Irish Ice Sheet