The Last Scottish Ice Sheet

The last Scottish Ice Sheet (SIS) expanded from a pre-existing ice cap after ∼35 ka. Highland ice dominated, with subsequent build-up of a Southern Uplands ice mass. The Outer Hebrides, Skye, Mull, the Cairngorms and Shetland supported persistent independent ice centres. Expansion was accompanied by...

Full description

Bibliographic Details
Published in:Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
Main Authors: Ballantyne, Colin K., Small, David
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 2019
Subjects:
British-Irish Ice Sheet
deglaciation
Dimlington Stade
flowsets
ice streams
Late Devensian
lithostratigraphy
radiocarbon dating
readvances
terrestrial cosmogenic nuclide dating
Midland
Mull
Tay
Fennoscandian
Ice cap
Ice Sheet
Sea ice
Online Access:https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00505/61627/65539.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755691018000038
https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00505/61627/

Similar Items