First cosmogenic 10Be age constraint on the timing of Younger Dryas glaciation and ice cap thickness, western Scottish Highlands

• Main Authors: Nicholas R. Golledge, Derek Fabel, Jeremy D. Everest, Stewart Freeman, Steven Binnie
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: cosmogenic; Younger Dryas; chronology; palaeoglaciological reconstruction; Scotland; Loch Lomond; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.452.9795; http://www.geos.ed.ac.uk/homes/s0350775/Golledge_etal_2007_JQS.pdf

ABSTRACT: We use cosmogenic 10Be surface exposure age techniques at a locality close to Rannoch Moor, western Scottish Highlands, in order to establish the age and chronology of its most recent glaciation. Glacial erratics and an in situ bedrock quartz vein sampled from this site—the summit of Beinn...