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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-12-3635-2018
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Research article
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23 Nov 2018
Research article |
| 23 Nov 2018
| 23 Nov 2018
Marine ice sheet instability and ice shelf buttressing of the Minch Ice Stream, northwest Scotland
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2
9JT, UK
Lauren J. Gregoire
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2
9JT, UK
Jeremy C. Ely
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10
2TN, UK
Christopher D. Clark
Department of Geography, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10
2TN, UK
David M. Hodgson
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2
9JT, UK
Victoria Lee
School of Geographical Sciences, University of Bristol, Bristol,
BS8 1SS, UK
Tom Bradwell
Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Stirling,
Stirling, FK9 4LA, UK
Ruza F. Ivanovic
School of Earth and Environment, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2
9JT, UK
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Short summary
We use the deglaciation of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet as a valuable case to examine the processes of contemporary ice sheet change, using an ice sheet model to simulate the Minch Ice Stream. We find that ice shelves were a control on retreat and that the Minch Ice Stream was vulnerable to the same marine mechanisms which threaten the future of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet. This demonstrates the importance of marine processes when projecting the future of our contemporary ice sheets.
We use the deglaciation of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet as a valuable case to examine the...
