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Reconstructing dynamics of the Baltic Ice Stream Complex during deglaciation of the Last Scandinavian Ice Sheet
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań 62-712, Poland
Jakub Z. Kalita
Faculty of Geographical and Geological Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań 62-712, Poland
Christiaan R. Diemont
Department of Geography, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S10 2NT, UK
Stephen J. Livingstone
Department of Geography, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S10 2NT, UK
Chris D. Clark
Department of Geography, Sheffield University, Sheffield, S10 2NT, UK
Martin Margold
Department of Physical Geography and Geoecology, Charles University, Prague 128 43, Czech Republic
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Short summary
A Baltic-wide glacial landform-based map is presented, filling in a geographical gap in the record that has been speculated about by palaeoglaciologists for over a century. Here we used newly available bathymetric data and provide landform evidence of corridors of fast ice flow that we interpret as ice streams. Where previous ice-sheet-scale investigations inferred a single ice source, our mapping identifies flow and ice margin geometries from both Swedish and Bothnian sources.
A Baltic-wide glacial landform-based map is presented, filling in a geographical gap in the...
