Upland landscapes and landforms of the Southern Uplands

• Main Author: Ballantyne, Colin K.
• Other Authors: Gordon, John E.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media B.V. 2021
• Subjects: Forearc accretionary complex; Frost-weathered regolith; Holocene alluviation; Loch Lomond Stade; Meltwater channels; Periglacial valley fills; Selective linear glacial erosion; Solifluction; Loch Lomond; Cold-based glacier; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/upland-landscapes-and-landforms-of-the-southern-uplands(af54d7a1-f8ec-4f1c-abe4-790026ad8c4b).html; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71246-4_27; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71246-4; https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9783030712457&rn=1

The Southern Uplands form a tract of rolling, dissected tableland, underlain by steeply dipping sedimentary and metasedimentary rocks of Ordovician and Silurian age, into which several granitic plutons were intruded during the Devonian. The landscape is one of selective glacial erosion, but the effe...