We are delighted to announce the publication of this Special Issue of JQS devoted to our results. WELL DONE and THANKS to the amazing BRITICE-CHRONO team, the editor Arjen Stroeven and our funders Natural Environment Research Council Sheffield Geography The University of Sheffield onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/10991417/2…

Some ‘light’ BRITICE-CHRONO reading in the sunshine

Wooft…..it’s out!! The all singing and dancing BRITICE-CHRONO reconstruction of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet. Will tweet some more in depth highlights soon but it’s epic. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bo…

A thread on British Irish Ice Sheet. pleased to see this paper out 🍺🍺🍺 took us 10 years. 40,000 word 60 page monster because an empirical reconstruction; an ice sheet model reconstruction; analysis of controls on retreat and lessons for glaciology doi.org/10.1111/bor.12…

We conducted >1500 person‐days of field data collection with sampling for dating spread across 914 sites and comprising a total of ~15 tonnes, generating 639 new ages: 336 radiocarbon, 156 optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) and 157 terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide (TCN)

Here is the ice sheet growing from 31,000 to 26,000 years ago in 1000 years timesteps

and build up and then collapse of ice over the North Sea when the British and Scandinavian ice sheets kissed and then broke up

and the the final demise until 15,000 years ago. Check out how sea levels and coastlines adjust as we lose the ice sheet.

...this is my fave figure 'cos can see the flowlines

growth and decay in one figure

...and if you are interested in the opposite of 'ice sheet' here is a map of how long land has been exposed since ice retreated. perhaps of use for ecological evolution, soil and slope development archaeology etc ,

HUGE THANKS to all who worked on BRITICE-CHRONO, we had an epic time, and to funders of this work Natural Environment Research Council and European Research Council (ERC) PalGlac

...if you want the dates, maps and modelling data check out the supplementary information with the Boreas paper, all open access, and an open access data paper in Pangaea that has even more data

..and with huge sadness we lost Richard Hindmarsh who was instrumental throughout, we dedicate this paper to him.

BRITICE-CHRONO gifts arrived marking a grand finale, expect everyone has a favourite time slice from this epic doi.org/10.1111/bor.12… livunigeog Chris Clark