期刊
GEOMORPHOLOGY
卷 65, 期 3-4, 页码 195-204出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2004.09.002
关键词
glacial grooves; Nye channels; ice stream; Scotland
资金
- NERC [bgs03002] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [bgs03002] Funding Source: researchfish
Geological mapping in Assynt, NW Scotland, has identified three areas of large-scale, linear, bedrock grooving. These closely spaced, subparallel, megagrooves occur predominantly on Cambrian quartzite, are not structurally controlled, and trend generally in the direction of palaeo-ice flow. On the basis of geomorphological evidence, most notably erosional relationships and s-forms, it is proposed that the megagrooves formed at the base of the last (Main Late Devensian) ice sheet and are chiefly the result of high-energy subglacial meltwater erosion. The unusual concentration of bedrock-cut Nye channels in Assynt indicates the presence of large volumes of meltwater beneath the last ice sheet in this region of NW Scotland. This high discharge of meltwater was probably accompanied by localized fast ice-sheet flow, akin to present-day ice streams. It is suggested that bedrock megagrooves may be the geomorphological signature of ice-stream onset zones. (C) 2004 NERC. Published by Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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