Late Devensian raised shorelines and ice limits in the inner Moray Firth area, northern Scotland
Marine, fluvial and fluvioglacial landforms and the deposits associated with them, have been mapped in the inner Moray Firth area. The landforms identified indicate a close association between the decay of the Late Devensian Scottish ice sheet and the formation of raised marine features. Analysis of...
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crwiley:10.1111/j.1502-3885.1989.tb00365.x 2024-09-15T18:12:22+00:00 Late Devensian raised shorelines and ice limits in the inner Moray Firth area, northern Scotland FIRTH, CALLUM R. 1989 http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1989.tb00365.x https://api.wiley.com/onlinelibrary/tdm/v1/articles/10.1111%2Fj.1502-3885.1989.tb00365.x https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1989.tb00365.x en eng Wiley http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/termsAndConditions#vor Boreas volume 18, issue 1, page 5-21 ISSN 0300-9483 1502-3885 journal-article 1989 crwiley https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1502-3885.1989.tb00365.x 2024-07-25T04:20:50Z Marine, fluvial and fluvioglacial landforms and the deposits associated with them, have been mapped in the inner Moray Firth area. The landforms identified indicate a close association between the decay of the Late Devensian Scottish ice sheet and the formation of raised marine features. Analysis of the altitudes of the marine terraces has identified ten glacio‐isostatically tilted raised shorelines of Late Devensian age, sloping down towards N25°E, at progressively lower gradients between 0.57 and 0.15 m/km. The shorelines were formed in close association with a westward‐ and southward‐receding ice margin and the shoreline sequence suggests that rates of ice margin retreat were most rapid where the ice terminated in the sea. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Wiley Online Library Boreas 18 1 5 21 |
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Marine, fluvial and fluvioglacial landforms and the deposits associated with them, have been mapped in the inner Moray Firth area. The landforms identified indicate a close association between the decay of the Late Devensian Scottish ice sheet and the formation of raised marine features. Analysis of the altitudes of the marine terraces has identified ten glacio‐isostatically tilted raised shorelines of Late Devensian age, sloping down towards N25°E, at progressively lower gradients between 0.57 and 0.15 m/km. The shorelines were formed in close association with a westward‐ and southward‐receding ice margin and the shoreline sequence suggests that rates of ice margin retreat were most rapid where the ice terminated in the sea. |
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Late Devensian raised shorelines and ice limits in the inner Moray Firth area, northern Scotland |
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Late Devensian raised shorelines and ice limits in the inner Moray Firth area, northern Scotland |
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Late Devensian raised shorelines and ice limits in the inner Moray Firth area, northern Scotland |
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