A Late Devensian nunatak on the Knoydart Peninsula, NW Scotland: implications for ice-sheet reconstruction
Geomorphological mapping and analysis of soil mineralogy indicates that all summits on the Knoydart Peninsula were over-ridden by the last ice sheet apart from Ladhar Bheinn (1020 m), where the ice attained a maximum altitude of c. 950 m. This figure is consistent with evidence from adjacent areas a...
| Main Author: | |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
1999
|
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/researchoutput/a-late-devensian-nunatak-on-the-knoydart-peninsula-nw-scotland-implications-for-icesheet-reconstruction(b216c220-95bc-437c-8852-c9c8c27392be).html http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0033499629&partnerID=8YFLogxK |
| Summary: | Geomorphological mapping and analysis of soil mineralogy indicates that all summits on the Knoydart Peninsula were over-ridden by the last ice sheet apart from Ladhar Bheinn (1020 m), where the ice attained a maximum altitude of c. 950 m. This figure is consistent with evidence from adjacent areas and suggests that the last ice sheet descended westwards across Knoydart from c. 1000 m to c. 900 at the west coast, implying that most theoretically-based ice-sheet models are substantially in error in this area. |
|---|