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Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum (2013)
Journal Article
Larter, R., Anderson, J., Graham, A., Gohl, K., Hillenbrand, C., Jakobsson, M., …Spiegel, C. (2014). Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum. Quaternary Science Reviews, 100, 55-86. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.10.016

Marine and terrestrial geological and marine geophysical data that constrain deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) of the sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) draining into the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea have been collat... Read More about Reconstruction of changes in the Amundsen Sea and Bellingshausen Sea sector of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet since the Last Glacial Maximum.

Late Quaternary ice flow in a West Greenland fjord and cross-shelf trough system: submarine landforms from Rink Isbrae to Uummannaq shelf and slope (2013)
Journal Article
Dowdeswell, J., Hogan, K., Ó Cofaigh, C., Fugelli, E., Evans, J., & Noormets, R. (2014). Late Quaternary ice flow in a West Greenland fjord and cross-shelf trough system: submarine landforms from Rink Isbrae to Uummannaq shelf and slope. Quaternary Science Reviews, 92, 292-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.09.007

Sea-floor landforms and acoustic-stratigraphic records allow interpretation of the past form and flow of a westward-draining ice stream of the Greenland Ice Sheet, Rink Isbrae. The Late Pliocene–Pleistocene glacial package is several hundred metres t... Read More about Late Quaternary ice flow in a West Greenland fjord and cross-shelf trough system: submarine landforms from Rink Isbrae to Uummannaq shelf and slope.

Formation of mega-scale glacial lineations on the Dubawnt Lake Ice Stream bed: 2. Sedimentology and stratigraphy (2013)
Journal Article
O'Cofaigh, C., Stokes, C., Lian, O., Clark, C., & Tulaczyk, S. (2013). Formation of mega-scale glacial lineations on the Dubawnt Lake Ice Stream bed: 2. Sedimentology and stratigraphy. Quaternary Science Reviews, 77, 210-227. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2013.06.028

Mega-scale glacial lineations (MSGLs) are highly elongate, subglacial landforms produced beneath zones of fast-flowing ice. While qualitative data on their morphology have existed for several decades, studies of their composition and sedimentology ar... Read More about Formation of mega-scale glacial lineations on the Dubawnt Lake Ice Stream bed: 2. Sedimentology and stratigraphy.

Glacimarine Sediments and Ice-Rafted Debris. (2013)
Book Chapter
ÓCofaigh, C. (2013). Glacimarine Sediments and Ice-Rafted Debris. In S. Elias, & C. Mock (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Quaternary Science (932-945). (2nd). Elsevier

An extensive and dynamic ice sheet on the West Greenland shelf during the last glacial cycle (2013)
Journal Article
Ó Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J., Jennings, A., Hogan, K., Kilfeather, K., Hiemstra, J., …Moros, M. (2013). An extensive and dynamic ice sheet on the West Greenland shelf during the last glacial cycle. Geology, 41(2), 219-222. https://doi.org/10.1130/g33759.1

Considerable uncertainty surrounds the extent and timing of the advance and retreat of the Greenland Ice Sheet (GIS) on the continental shelf bordering Baffin Bay during the last glacial cycle. Here we use marine geophysical and geological data to sh... Read More about An extensive and dynamic ice sheet on the West Greenland shelf during the last glacial cycle.

Glacimarine lithofacies, provenance and depositional processes on a West Greenland trough-mouth fan (2013)
Journal Article
Ó Cofaigh, C., Andrews, J., Jennings, A., Dowdeswell, J., Hogan, K., Kilfeather, A., & Sheldon, C. (2013). Glacimarine lithofacies, provenance and depositional processes on a West Greenland trough-mouth fan. Journal of Quaternary Science, 28(1), 13-26. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.2569

Along the West Greenland continental margin adjoining Baffin Bay, bathymetric data show a series of large submarine fans located at the mouths of cross-shelf troughs. One of these fans, termed here ‘Uummannaq Fan’, is a trough-mouth fan built largely... Read More about Glacimarine lithofacies, provenance and depositional processes on a West Greenland trough-mouth fan.

Large-scale reorganization and sedimentation of terrestrial ice streams during late Wisconsinan Laurentide Ice Sheet deglaciation (2010)
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Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, D., & Smith, I. (2010). Large-scale reorganization and sedimentation of terrestrial ice streams during late Wisconsinan Laurentide Ice Sheet deglaciation. GSA Bulletin, 122(5-6), 743-756. https://doi.org/10.1130/b26476.1

Glacial geomorphological mapping of Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data from the western Canadian Prairies demonstrates that during the last (late Wisconsinan)deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet terrestrial ice streams underwent a major... Read More about Large-scale reorganization and sedimentation of terrestrial ice streams during late Wisconsinan Laurentide Ice Sheet deglaciation.

Comment on Shaw J., Pugin, A. and Young, R. (2008): “A meltwater origin for Antarctic shelf bedforms with special attention to megalineations”, Geomorphology 102, 364–375 (2010)
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Ó Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J., King, E., Anderson, J., Clark, C., Evans, D., …Stokes, C. (2010). Comment on Shaw J., Pugin, A. and Young, R. (2008): “A meltwater origin for Antarctic shelf bedforms with special attention to megalineations”, Geomorphology 102, 364–375. Geomorphology, 117(1-2), 195-198. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.09.036

Marine geophysical evidence for former expansion and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet across the northeast Greenland continental shelf (2009)
Journal Article
Evans, J., Ó Cofaigh, C., Dowdeswell, J., & Wadhams, P. (2009). Marine geophysical evidence for former expansion and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet across the northeast Greenland continental shelf. Journal of Quaternary Science, 24(3), 279-293. https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1231

High-resolution swath bathymetry and TOPAS sub-bottom profiler acoustic data from the inner and middle continental shelf of north-east Greenland record the presence of streamlined mega-scale glacial lineations and other subglacial landforms that are... Read More about Marine geophysical evidence for former expansion and flow of the Greenland Ice Sheet across the northeast Greenland continental shelf.

Till characteristics, genesis and transport beneath Antarctic paleo-ice streams (2007)
Journal Article
Ó Cofaigh, C., Evans, J., Dowdeswell, J., & Larter, R. (2007). Till characteristics, genesis and transport beneath Antarctic paleo-ice streams. Journal of Geophysical Research, 112, https://doi.org/10.1029/2006jf000606

Marine geophysical data from the Antarctic continental shelf indicate the former presence of ice streams that drained through bathymetric troughs during the last glacial cycle. Streaming flow is recorded by elongate subglacial bedforms, formed in the... Read More about Till characteristics, genesis and transport beneath Antarctic paleo-ice streams.

Radiocarbon constraints on the age of the maximum advance of the British-Irish Ice Sheet in the Celtic Sea (2007)
Journal Article
Ó Cofaigh, C., & Evans, D. (2007). Radiocarbon constraints on the age of the maximum advance of the British-Irish Ice Sheet in the Celtic Sea. Quaternary Science Reviews, 26(9-10), 1197-1203. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2007.03.008

Reconstructions of the British–Irish Ice Sheet (BIIS) during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) in the Celtic Sea and southern Ireland have been hampered by a paucity of well-dated stratigraphic records. As a result, the timing of the last advance of the... Read More about Radiocarbon constraints on the age of the maximum advance of the British-Irish Ice Sheet in the Celtic Sea.