The ice-free area amounts to 350,000 kmВІ (135,000 square miles) вЂ“ equivalent to the area of Germany. The iceвЂ™s total area of 1.8 million kmВІ (695,000 square miles) corresponds to 14 times the size of England. Here the ice breaks off and forms the icebergs that are one of GreenlandвЂ™s major natural attractions. You can also view the BRITICE map (Ireland Sheet).GreenlandвЂ™s ice sheet creates enormous glaciers, which under the influence of the force of gravity are forced out towards the coasts. This will zoom in over Ireland and the landforms will appear. Once the map loads, press shift and use the mouse to draw a box over Ireland. You can explore all of the landforms yourself using the BRITICE Glacial Map. The top panel also shows mapped drumlins (long axis mapped as a black line). Geomorphological map of SW County Clare and the Shannon Estuary, showing the Kilkee-Kilrush moraine complex and the Scattery Island Moraine. In fact, drumlins are so common in Ireland, that the word вЂdrumlinвЂ™ comes from the Irish word droimnГn (вЂњlittlest ridgeвЂќ)! Click here to see a map of the glacial landforms in Ireland. Glacial landforms include: moraines, drumlins, subglacial ribs, eskers, meltwater channels, and streamlined bedrock features ( Greenwood and Clark, 2008). The onshore geological record takes the form of (i) landforms and (ii) stratigraphy. Onshore geological record of the glaciation of Ireland Deglaciation of the inner shelf back to the Galway and County Clare coast is poorly constrained. Ice retreat and reвЂђadvance across the midвЂђcontinental shelf is dated to between 21,000 and 18,500 years ago, and is marked by the Galway Lobe Grounding Zone Wedge (GLGZW) and the Galway Lobe ReвЂђadvance Moraine (GLRM). Maximum ice extent offshore from western Ireland is likely to have been reached at ~26,000 to 24,000 years ago. The configuration of the BIIS at the Last Glacial Maximum (grey shading). Exploring present-day glaciers in a GIS.Glacial Geomorphology and GIS resources.Post-16 education and A-Level content on AntarcticGlaciers.Teaching resources on the last British-Irish Ice Sheet.Younger Dryas glacial moraines (Lake District).Introduction to the Glacial Landsystems of the Younger Dryas glaciation of Britain.Unlocking ice-flow pathways using glacial erratics.Shelf-edge margins of the British-Irish Ice Sheet.The LGM British-Irish Ice Sheet: an introduction.Introduction to the Glaciation of Britain.Glaciolacustrine Landforms in Patagonia, Chile.The westerly winds and the Patagonian Ice Sheet.Glacial geomorphology of the Patagonian Ice Sheet.Geophysical Surveys: The Gamburtsev Mountains.Ice stream initiation on the northern Antarctic Peninsula.Antarctic Peninsula Ice Sheet evolution.Precision and accuracy in glacial geology.In situ 14C exposure age dating in Antarctica.Quantifying ice sheet thinning using cosmogenic nuclide ages.Introduction to dating glacial sediments.Plateau icefield landsystem of upland Britain.Alpine icefield landsystem of upland Britain.Subpolar landsystems of James Ross Island.Cirque glaciation landsystem of upland Britain.Introduction to glaciated valley landsystems.Introduction to Glaciofluvial Landforms.The role of debris cover on glacier ablation.An introduction to Glacier Mass Balance.Differences between Arctic and Antarctic sea ice.A introduction to the hierarchy of ice-sheet models.Degree day models: Modelling glacier melt.Dealing with uncertainty: predicting future sea level rise.Plateau Icefields: Glacial geomorphology of Juneau Icefield.Glacier disconnections, Juneau Icefield.Structural Glaciology of Juneau Icefield.Supraglacial hydrology of the Greenland Ice Sheet.Glacier recession around the Greenland Ice Sheet.An introduction to the Greenland Ice Sheet.Antarctic supraglacial lakes and ice-shelf collapse.Calculating glacier ice volumes and sea level equivalents.What is the global volume of land ice and how is it changing?.James Ross Island fieldwork photographs.Not so humbly Humboldt: the queer relationships of a German explorer.An introduction to the Physical Geography of Antarctica StoryMap.

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