The glacial geomorphology around Inverness and the Great Glen

• Main Authors: Merritt, Jon W., Auton, Clive A.
• Other Authors: Ballantyne, Colin K., Gordon, John E.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer 2021
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Arctic; Ice Sheet; Tidewater
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531193/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/531193/1/Chapter%2015%20The%20Glacial%20Geomorphology%20Around%20Inverness%20and%20the%20Great%20Glen_NORA.pdf; https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-030-71246-4_15

Superimposed on ancient landscape elements, the Inverness region includes a palimpsest of subglacial landforms formed during successive Late Devensian ice movements. It contains a particularly rich and diverse set of sediments and landforms created close to retreating glacier margins, together with the legacy of a major oscillating tidewater outlet glacier. At least five phases of glaciation have been recognised, although they remain poorly constrained temporally. The region includes well-documented buried glacial rafts of arctic shelly clay, two internationally important localities where organic deposits pre-date the last ice sheet, and a good geomorphological record of Late Glacial sea-level change.