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List of works by Colm Ó Cofaigh

A community-based geological reconstruction of Antarctic Ice Sheet deglaciation since the Last Glacial Maximum

scholarly article

A stratigraphic investigation of the Celtic Sea megaridges based on seismic and core data from the Irish-UK sectors

scholarly article

Antarctic palaeo-ice streams

Baffin Bay paleoenvironments in the LGM and HS1: Resolving the ice-shelf question

scientific article published in August 2018

Bayesian modelling the retreat of the Irish Sea Ice Stream

scholarly article

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

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Controls on the formation of turbidity current channels associated with marine-terminating glaciers and ice sheets

scientific article published in 2019

Deglaciation of a major palaeo-ice stream in Disko Trough, West Greenland

scholarly article

Dynamic Devensian ice flow in NE England: a sedimentological reconstruction

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Extent and dynamics of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the outer continental shelf of Pine Island Bay during the last glaciation

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Extent and retreat history of the Barra Fan Ice Stream offshore western Scotland and northern Ireland during the last glaciation

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Flow dynamics and till genesis associated with a marine-based Antarctic palaeo-ice stream

scholarly article

Flow of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet on the continental margin of the Bellingshausen Sea at the Last Glacial Maximum

scientific article

Geological and geomorphological insights into Antarctic ice sheet evolution

scientific article

Geological constraints on Antarctic palaeo-ice-stream retreat

article published in 2008

Geomorphic and sedimentary signatures of early Holocene deglaciation in High Arctic fiords, Ellesmere Island, Canada: implications for deglacial ice dynamics and thermal regime

scholarly article

Geophysical surveys of the sediments of Loch Ness, Scotland: implications for the deglaciation of the Moray Firth Ice Stream, British-Irish Ice Sheet

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Glacial and glacially-related features on the continental margin of northwest Ireland mapped from marine geophysical data

Glacial and post-glacial sedimentary processes in the Irish Rockall Trough from an integrated acoustic analysis of near-seabed sediments

Glacial and submarine processes on the shelf margin of the Disko Bay Trough Mouth Fan

scientific article

Glacial geomorphology of Marguerite Bay Palaeo-Ice stream, western Antarctic Peninsula

Glacial geomorphology of the Great Glen Region of Scotland

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Glacial history of sub-Antarctic South Georgia based on the submarine geomorphology of its fjords

scholarly article

Glaciodynamics of the central sector of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet in Northern England

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Holocene glacimarine sedimentation, inner Scoresby Sund, East Greenland: the influence of fast-flowing ice-sheet outlet glaciers

scholarly article by Colm Ó Cofaigh et al published May 2001 in Marine Geology

Ice sheets viewed from the ocean: the contribution of marine science to understanding modern and past ice sheets

scientific article published on December 13, 2012

Ice stream retreat following the LGM and onset of the west Greenland current in Uummannaq Trough, west Greenland

scholarly article by Christina Sheldon et al published September 2016 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Ice-stream demise dynamically conditioned by trough shape and bed strength

scientific article published on 24 April 2019

Ice-stream stability on a reverse bed slope

Lack of evidence for a substantial sea-level fluctuation within the Last Interglacial

Late Devensian deglaciation of the Tyne Gap Palaeo-Ice Stream, northern England

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Late Pleistocene chronostratigraphy and ice sheet limits, southern Ireland

scholarly article

Marine geophysical evidence for Late Pleistocene ice sheet extent and recession off northwest Ireland

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Maximum extent and dynamic behaviour of the last British–Irish Ice Sheet west of Ireland

scholarly article

Micromorphological characteristics of glacimarine sediments: implications for distinguishing genetic processes of massive diamicts

scientific article

Ocean forcing of Ice Sheet retreat in central west Greenland from LGM to the early Holocene

scientific article published in August 2017

Past ice-shelf collapse in West Antarctica

scientific article published on August 17, 2011

Provenance and depositional environments of Quaternary sediments from the western North Sea Basin

Radiocarbon constraints on the age of the maximum advance of the British–Irish Ice Sheet in the Celtic Sea

scholarly article

Recent advances in understanding Antarctic climate evolution

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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

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Reconstruction of ice-sheet changes in the Antarctic Peninsula since the Last Glacial Maximum

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Reply to John Shaw “Correspondence – Alberta flow paths: a need for balance”

scholarly article

Seafloor geomorphology and glacimarine sedimentation associated with fast-flowing ice sheet outlet glaciers in Disko Bay, West Greenland

scholarly article

Sedimentology and chronology of the advance and retreat of the last British-Irish Ice Sheet on the continental shelf west of Ireland

scholarly article by Jared L. Peters et al published May 2016 in Quaternary Science Reviews

Submarine landform assemblages and sedimentary processes in front of Spitsbergen tidewater glaciers

scientific article published in 2018

Submarine landform assemblages and sedimentary processes related to glacier surging in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard

Terrestrial and submarine evidence for the extent and timing of the Last Glacial Maximum and the onset of deglaciation on the maritime-Antarctic and sub-Antarctic islands

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The Greenland Ice Sheet During the Past 300,000 Years: A Review

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The Subpolar Glacier Landsystem of the Canadian High Arctic

academic chapter

The age and stratigraphic context of the Easington Raised Beach, County Durham, UK

scientific article published in January 2009

The deglaciation of the western sector of the Irish Ice Sheet from the inner continental shelf to its terrestrial margin

scientific article

The glacial history of the southern Svartenhuk Halvø, West Greenland

scholarly article published December 2015

The mixed‐bed glacial landform imprint of the North Sea Lobe in the western North Sea

scientific article published on 28 January 2019

The palaeoglaciology of the central sector of the British and Irish Ice Sheet: reconciling glacial geomorphology and preliminary ice sheet modelling

scholarly article

The relationship between ice sheets and submarine mass movements in the Nordic Seas during the Quaternary

The role of meltwater in high-latitude trough-mouth fan development: The Disko Trough-Mouth Fan, West Greenland

scientific article published in August 2018

Till characteristics, genesis and transport beneath Antarctic paleo-ice streams

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Till genesis and glacier motion inferred from sedimentological evidence associated with the surge-type glacier, Brúarjökull, Iceland

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Till stratigraphy and sedimentology at the margins of terrestrially terminating ice streams: case study of the western Canadian prairies and high plains

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Timing and significance of glacially influenced mass-wasting in the submarine channels of the Greenland Basin

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Timing, pace and controls on ice sheet retreat: an introduction to the BRITICE‐CHRONO transect reconstructions of the British–Irish Ice Sheet

scientific article

Trough geometry was a greater influence than climate-ocean forcing in regulating retreat of the marine-based Irish-Sea Ice Stream

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Understanding controls on rapid ice-stream retreat during the last deglaciation of Marguerite Bay, Antarctica, using a numerical model

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