British–Irish Ice Sheet

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The British–Irish Ice Sheet was a massive glacial ice sheet that covered most of Great Britain and Ireland during the last Ice Age, shaping much of the region’s present-day landscape.

All labels observed (2)

Label Occurrences
British–Irish Ice Sheet canonical 4
British–Irish Ice Cap 1

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (49)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Pleistocene ice sheet ⓘ
Quaternary geological feature ⓘ
glacial ice sheet ⓘ
alsoKnownAs BIIS ⓘ
British–Irish Ice Cap ⓘ
contributedTo isostatic depression of the British Isles ⓘ
postglacial isostatic rebound in Britain and Ireland ⓘ
covered large parts of England ⓘ
large parts of Wales ⓘ
most of Ireland ⓘ
most of Scotland ⓘ
createdLandforms drumlins ⓘ
eskers ⓘ
fjords ⓘ
glacial valleys ⓘ
moraines ⓘ
outwash plains ⓘ
evidenceFrom moraines and erratics across Britain and Ireland ⓘ
offshore seismic and core data on surrounding continental shelves ⓘ
extendedOnto Celtic Sea shelf ⓘ
linked to: Celtic Sea

Irish Sea basin ⓘ
continental shelf of the Atlantic Ocean west of Ireland ⓘ
continental shelf of the North Sea ⓘ
formedDuring Devensian glaciation ⓘ
linked to: Last Glacial Period

Midlandian glaciation ⓘ
linked to: Saalian glaciation

Weichselian glaciation ⓘ
linked to: Last Glacial Period
importantFor reconstructing sea-level history around the British Isles ⓘ
understanding past climate change in the North Atlantic region ⓘ
influenced distribution of soils in Britain and Ireland ⓘ
drainage patterns in Britain and Ireland ⓘ
largelyDisappearedBy early Holocene ⓘ
leftDeposits glaciofluvial sediments ⓘ
glaciolacustrine sediments ⓘ
till ⓘ
locatedIn Great Britain ⓘ
Ireland ⓘ
North Atlantic region ⓘ
maximumExtentApproximateAge around 27,000 to 21,000 years ago ⓘ
maximumThicknessApproximate over 1,000 metres in some areas ⓘ
meltwaterContributedTo sea-level rise at the end of the Pleistocene ⓘ
modelledUsing ice-sheet models ⓘ
partOf Last Glacial Maximum ice sheets ⓘ
Northern Hemisphere ice sheets ⓘ
retreatedDuring Late Glacial period ⓘ
shaped present-day British landscape ⓘ
present-day Irish landscape ⓘ
studiedIn Quaternary science ⓘ
timePeriod Last Glacial Maximum ⓘ
Late Pleistocene ⓘ
linked to: Last Glacial Period

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (5)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Fennoscandian Ice Sheet → relatedTo → British–Irish Ice Sheet ⓘ
Last Glacial Maximum → hasMajorIceSheet → British–Irish Ice Sheet ⓘ
British–Irish Ice Sheet → alsoKnownAs → British–Irish Ice Cap ⓘ
linked to: British–Irish Ice Sheet
Last Glacial Period → majorIceSheet → British–Irish Ice Sheet ⓘ
Barents–Kara Ice Sheet → relatedTo → British–Irish Ice Sheet ⓘ