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https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-869-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/tc-19-869-2025
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26 Feb 2025
Research article |  | 26 Feb 2025

Ice flow dynamics of the northwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet during the last deglaciation

Benjamin J. Stoker, Helen E. Dulfer, Chris R. Stokes, Victoria H. Brown, Christopher D. Clark, Colm Ó Cofaigh, David J. A. Evans, Duane Froese, Sophie L. Norris, and Martin Margold

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The retreat of the northwestern Laurentide Ice Sheet allows us to investigate how the ice drainage network evolves over millennial timescales and understand the influence of climate forcing, glacial lakes and the underlying geology on the rate of deglaciation. We reconstruct the changes in ice flow at 500-year intervals and identify rapid reorganisations of the drainage network, including variations in ice streaming that we link to climatically driven changes in the ice sheet surface slope.
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