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

• Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science
• Main Authors: Golledge, Nicholas, Fabel, D., Everest, Jeremy, Freeman, S., Binnie, S.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Wiley 2007
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Loch Lomond; Ice cap
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/3519/; http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/fulltext/114269742/PDFSTART; https://doi.org/10.1002/jqs.1113

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 Inverve...