The last ice sheet in North-West Scotland: reconstruction and implications

• Main Authors: Ballantyne, Colin Kerr, McCarroll, D, Nesje, A, Dahl, SO, Stone, JO
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: CONTINENTAL-SHELF WEST; SOUTHERN NORWAY; PERIGLACIAL PHENOMENA; DEVENSIAN GLACIATION; QUATERNARY DEPOSITS; MAXIMUM ALTITUDE; FORMER NUNATAKS; VERTICAL EXTENT; OUTER HEBRIDES; BRITISH-ISLES; Loch Lomond; Norway; Ice cap; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/the-last-ice-sheet-in-northwest-scotland-reconstruction-and-implications(27ac381e-7261-4f52-9300-38402636eb30).html; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0032423748&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Recent models of the last Scottish ice sheet suggest that nunataks remained above the ice surface in areas peripheral to the main centres of accumulation. This proposition has been investigated on 140 mountains over an area of 10,000 km(2) in NW Scotland. Outside the limits of the later Loch Lomond...