Late Quaternary glaciation and environmental change in Southern Ross-shire, Scotland

Despite considerable active research in the realm of Quaternary studies in Scotland, some parts of the Scottish Highlands remain largely uninvestigated in terms of both glacial and environmental history. For many areas of Scotland the glacial history has been examined: researchers have ascertained a...

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Main Author: Tate, C. Jill
Other Authors: Ballantyne, Colin, Whittington, Graeme Walter, Jarvis, Jack
Format: Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: University of St Andrews 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11114
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spelling ftstandrewserep:oai:research-repository.st-andrews.ac.uk:10023/11114 2023-07-02T03:32:36+02:00 Late Quaternary glaciation and environmental change in Southern Ross-shire, Scotland Tate, C. Jill Ballantyne, Colin Whittington, Graeme Walter Jarvis, Jack 307 p. 2017-06-29T12:34:02Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11114 en eng University of St Andrews The University of St Andrews uk.bl.ethos.244122 http://hdl.handle.net/10023/11114 QE741.3T2 Paleontology--Quaternary--Scotland Thesis Doctoral PhD Doctor of Philosophy 2017 ftstandrewserep 2023-06-13T18:27:39Z Despite considerable active research in the realm of Quaternary studies in Scotland, some parts of the Scottish Highlands remain largely uninvestigated in terms of both glacial and environmental history. For many areas of Scotland the glacial history has been examined: researchers have ascertained aspects of the nature of the Late Devensian (Weichselian) ice sheet that covered most of Scotland and subsequent readvances, chiefly the Loch Lomond Readvance. In a 1979 review of the Loch Lomond Readvance in the British Isles, Sissons published a map of the glacial limits relating to this latest period of glacial activity in Scotland (Figure 1.1). Since then this map has been only slightly modified with certain limits having been established in the western Grampians. For the area further north, little accurate information has been added to this picture. One of the most noticeable omissions in relation to the Loch Lomond Readvance is in the area between Glen Carron and Glen Shiel in southern Ross-shire. Published research regarding the earlier Late Devensian ice sheet is also sparse. Information regarding other aspects of the Quaternary such as those detailed in other parts of the Scottish Highlands are similarly lacking for this area. There are no published accounts of the vegetation history of the area nor of Late Quaternary sea-level changes. This study seeks to fill in some of these gaps with specific reference to the Late Devensian glaciation and aims to relate the patterns of glaciation with other contemporaneous environmental changes through to the establishing of interglacial conditions in the early Flandrian period. Recent studies have demonstrated that aspects of the Late Quaternary environment can usefully be related and this study attempts to follow a similar procedure. Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis Ice Sheet University of St Andrews: Digital Research Repository Loch Lomond ENVELOPE(-125.746,-125.746,54.239,54.239)
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Late Quaternary glaciation and environmental change in Southern Ross-shire, Scotland
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description Despite considerable active research in the realm of Quaternary studies in Scotland, some parts of the Scottish Highlands remain largely uninvestigated in terms of both glacial and environmental history. For many areas of Scotland the glacial history has been examined: researchers have ascertained aspects of the nature of the Late Devensian (Weichselian) ice sheet that covered most of Scotland and subsequent readvances, chiefly the Loch Lomond Readvance. In a 1979 review of the Loch Lomond Readvance in the British Isles, Sissons published a map of the glacial limits relating to this latest period of glacial activity in Scotland (Figure 1.1). Since then this map has been only slightly modified with certain limits having been established in the western Grampians. For the area further north, little accurate information has been added to this picture. One of the most noticeable omissions in relation to the Loch Lomond Readvance is in the area between Glen Carron and Glen Shiel in southern Ross-shire. Published research regarding the earlier Late Devensian ice sheet is also sparse. Information regarding other aspects of the Quaternary such as those detailed in other parts of the Scottish Highlands are similarly lacking for this area. There are no published accounts of the vegetation history of the area nor of Late Quaternary sea-level changes. This study seeks to fill in some of these gaps with specific reference to the Late Devensian glaciation and aims to relate the patterns of glaciation with other contemporaneous environmental changes through to the establishing of interglacial conditions in the early Flandrian period. Recent studies have demonstrated that aspects of the Late Quaternary environment can usefully be related and this study attempts to follow a similar procedure.
author2 Ballantyne, Colin
Whittington, Graeme Walter
Jarvis, Jack
format Doctoral or Postdoctoral Thesis
author Tate, C. Jill
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title Late Quaternary glaciation and environmental change in Southern Ross-shire, Scotland
title_short Late Quaternary glaciation and environmental change in Southern Ross-shire, Scotland
title_full Late Quaternary glaciation and environmental change in Southern Ross-shire, Scotland
title_fullStr Late Quaternary glaciation and environmental change in Southern Ross-shire, Scotland
title_full_unstemmed Late Quaternary glaciation and environmental change in Southern Ross-shire, Scotland
title_sort late quaternary glaciation and environmental change in southern ross-shire, scotland
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