Pleistocene glacial limits in England, Scotland and Wales
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...Much of the North Sea Basin seems to have been ice covered during the Late Saalian and in Britain the northern tip of East Anglia (Norfolk) seems to have been covered (Clark et al., 2004)....
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...The North Sea and Irish Sea were fully glaciated (Clark et al., 2004)....
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...The shaded area in (A) indicates the traditional limit of the last glacial maximum (LGM) in Ireland....
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...7 kya [32] and that Ireland was completely covered in ice from circa 27–23 kya [29, 31]....
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...If the Irish bears carrying clade II matrilines, or at least those Irish bears associated with radiocarbon ages postdating the LGM, were actually polar bears and not brown bears, then fewer hybridization events would be required to explain the observed data (in Figure 4B, only the transfer of the polar bear matriline to the ABC island brown bears would be required)....
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...However, although it is consistent with conditions during the LGM favoring the emergence of a cold-adapted species, the timeline of this scenario conflicts with both the existence of the two ancient polar bears and the high degree of morphological and behavioral dissimilarity between brown bears and polar bears....
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...Extent and timing of the last glacial maximum (LGM) in Britain and Ireland: A review....
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