Defining the centre of glacio‐isostatic uplift of the last Scottish ice‐sheet: the Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Scottish Highlands

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Dawson, Alastair G., Hampton, Shaun, Fretwell, Peter, Harrison, Stephan, Greengrass, Peter
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Wiley 2002
• Subjects: Dammed Lake; Tilting; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.712; https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1002%2Fjqs.712; https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jqs.712

Abstract The Parallel Roads of Glen Roy, Scottish Highlands, represent a series of ice‐dammed lake shorelines produced during the cold climate of the Younger Dryas. It is shown here that each lake shoreline exhibits evidence of glacio‐isostatic tilting associated with the decay of the last (Late Dev...