Was Scotland deglaciated during the Younger Dryas?

• Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews
• Main Authors: Small, D., Fabel, D.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2016
• Subjects: Loch Lomond; Ice cap; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://dro.dur.ac.uk/25547/; http://dro.dur.ac.uk/25547/1/25547.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.05.031

Recent work has produced data that challenges the canonical view that the Younger Dryas (c.12.9–11.7 ka) was a time of glacier expansion across the North Atlantic. Boulders on moraines located within the inner sector of the Scottish Loch Lomond Stadial (≈Younger Dryas) ice cap yield cosmogenic expos...