Glacial Geology and Geomorphology: The landscapes of Ireland PDF

The biogenic records, glacial deposits and landscapes of Ireland contain a rich record of Quaternary climate change.Ireland’s position on the fringe of Europe makes the island an ideal laboratory for identifying terrestrial evidence for climatic signals. Some signals are clearly associated with changes in the heat distributions and fluxes from the ocean. Critically the author documents the dynamic interactions between ice, atmosphere and sea-levels during the last major glacial cycle. As a detailed study of the Quaternary geology and evidence from a specific locale it provides analogous data to be applied in other glacial and post-glacial landscapes around the world.