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Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies

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  • © 2017

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Editors:
  1. Peter Coxon

    1. Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  2. Stephen McCarron

    1. Department of Geography, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland

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  3. Fraser Mitchell

    1. Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

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  • No similar volume of multi-author contributions available for the Irish Quaternary
  • Summarises in one publication a significant (~30 year) span of research findings from a climatically sensitive region
  • Irish Quaternary change relatively well constrained in a European context
  • Irish Quaternary sediment and landform record regularly used as a test bed for ice sheet geophysical models
  • As an island, Ireland has a floristic and archeological history of unique character
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Atlantis Advances in Quaternary Science (AAQS, volume 1)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction: Advances in Irish Quaternary Studies

    • Peter Coxon, Stephen McCarron, Fraser Mitchell
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Pre-Quaternary Landscape of Ireland

    • Michael J. Simms, Peter Coxon
    Pages 19-42

  4. Interglacial Sequences

    • Peter Coxon, Fraser Mitchell, Sebastian von Engelbrechten, Laura Vaughan
    Pages 43-66

  5. Glacial Geomorphology of the Last Irish Ice Sheet

    • Robert T. Meehan
    Pages 67-99

  6. The Last Irish Ice Sheet: Extent and Chronology

    • Colin K. Ballantyne, Colm Ó Cofaigh
    Pages 101-149

  7. Deglaciation of the Northern Irish Sea Basin

    • Jasper Knight
    Pages 151-180

  8. Relative Sea-Level Change Around the Irish Coast

    • Robin Edwards, Kieran Craven
    Pages 181-215

  9. Periglacial and Paraglacial Processes, Landforms and Sediments

    • Peter Wilson
    Pages 217-254

  10. Irish Quaternary Vertebrates

    • Nigel T. Monaghan
    Pages 255-291

  11. The Human Colonisation of Ireland in Northwest European Context

    • Graeme M. Warren
    Pages 293-316
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This book provides a new synthesis of the published research on the Quaternary of Ireland. It reviews a number of significant advances in the last three decades on the understanding of the pattern and chronology of the Irish Quaternary glacial, interglacial, floristic and occupation records. Those utilising the latest technology have enabled significant advances in geochronology using accelerated mass spectrometry, cosmogenic nuclide extraction and optically stimulated luminescence amongst others.  This has been commensurate with high-resolution geomorphological mapping of the Irish land surface and continental shelf using a wide range of remote sensing techniques including MBES and LIDAR.  Thus the time is ideal for a state of the art publication, which provides a series of authoritative reviews of the Irish Quaternary incorporating these most recent advances.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Geography, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Peter Coxon

  • Department of Geography, National University of Ireland Maynooth, Maynooth, Ireland

    Stephen McCarron

  • Department of Botany, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland

    Fraser Mitchell

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