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Geological Society, London, Geology of Series
The Geology of Scotland
Editor(s)
Rob Strachan
Rob Strachan
2
University of Portsmouth
, UK
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© 2024 The Author(s). Published by The Geological Society of London. All rights reserved
© 2024 The Author(s)
ISBN electronic:
9781786206893
ISBN print:
9781786206138
Publication date:
August 20, 2024
The Geology of Scotland is a fully revised and updated key text celebrating Scotland's onshore and offshore geology. It provides a modern review of advances in our understanding over the last two decades of academic and applied research. The volume is broad based, aimed at undergraduates, academic- and industry-based geoscientists, policy makers and amateur geologists.
Book Chapter
16: Quaternary: glaciations, sea-level change and palaeoenvironmental reconstruction Available to Purchase
Author(s)
David J. A. Evans
;
David J. A. Evans
1
Department of Geography, University of Durham
, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
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Correspondence: [email protected]
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Jon W. Merritt
;
Jon W. Merritt
2
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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Emrys R. Phillips
;
Emrys R. Phillips
2
British Geological Survey
, The Lyell Centre, Research Avenue South, Edinburgh EH14 4AP, UK
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Ian Shennan
Ian Shennan
1
Department of Geography, University of Durham
, Lower Mountjoy, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK
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Published:August 20, 2024
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Index Terms/Descriptors
- Atlantic Ocean
- Atlantic Ocean Islands
- Ayrshire Scotland
- bathymetry
- bottom features
- Caithness Scotland
- Cenozoic
- cyclic processes
- deglaciation
- depositional environment
- Devensian
- erosion
- Europe
- glacial erosion
- glacial features
- glacial sedimentation
- glaciation
- Great Britain
- Highland region Scotland
- Holocene
- landform evolution
- lithostratigraphy
- Loch Lomond Stade
- marine environment
- Neoproterozoic
- North Atlantic
- North Sea
- ocean floors
- paleoenvironment
- Pleistocene
- Precambrian
- Proterozoic
- Quaternary
- reconstruction
- Scotland
- sea-level changes
- sedimentation
- shelf environment
- Shetland Islands
- stratigraphic units
- submarine environment
- United Kingdom
- upper Pleistocene
- upper Precambrian
- Weichselian
- Western Europe
- Windermere Supergroup
- Dimlington Stade
- glacial isostatic adjustment
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