Digging into Ireland’s Ice Age legacy could improve sea level predictions

Geoscientists Helen Dulfer and Sam Kelley hike up Ireland’s Wicklow Mountains on April 14. They collected rock samples from bedrock and boulders that were deposited by the British-Irish Ice Sheet during the last ice age to understand abrupt climate change in the future. (Cathy Ching / MEDILL)

By Cathy Ching Medill Reports IRELAND – Ireland and much of Northern Europe was once buried under a large ice sheet tens of thousands of years ago. Today, long after the ice has retreated, the land is still reshaping itself like a mattress slowly rebounding upwards after a heavy weight is lifted. But Southeast Ireland, […]