The Outer Hebrides and St Kilda

• Main Authors: Hall, Adrian M., Ballantyne, Colin K., Hansom, James D.
• Other Authors: Ballantyne, Colin K, Gordon, John E
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media B.V. 2021
• Subjects: Beaches; Dunes and machair; Knock-and-lochan terrain; Loch Lomond Readvance; Moraines; Outer Hebrides Ice Cap; Outer Hebrides platform; Planation surface; Strandflat; Loch Lomond; Raised Beach; Ice cap
• Online Access: https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/the-outer-hebrides-and-st-kilda(ed63fc15-7866-418a-b95a-79b922494b9d).html; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71246-4_9; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114084814&partnerID=8YFLogxK

The Outer Hebrides Platform extends west from the present island chain towards the Atlantic continental shelf edge and represents a fragment of Archaean crust (Lewisian gneiss) that was differentially uplifted during the Palaeogene and tilted westwards during the Neogene. An extensive planation surf...