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XI.—A Late-glacial Site at Loch Droma, Ross and Cromarty

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 January 2013

W. Kirk ,
H. Godwin  and
J. K. Charlesworth
W. Kirk
Affiliation:
Department of Geography, University of Leicester
H. Godwin
Affiliation:
Sub-department of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge
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Synopsis

Excavations in 1958 for the construction of a dam at Loch Droma, Ross and Cromarty, revealed a deep and extensive section in peat and Late-glacial silts. The section was surveyed, its environs studied, and samples of materials analyzed by the Macaulay Institute, Aberdeen, and the Sub-department of Quaternary Research, University of Cambridge. The watershed location of the site, the early radio-carbon date obtained for the basal silts (12,810 ± 155 B.P.), and the nature of their organic contents, make this a critical site for the elucidation of the deglaciation and vegetational history of the Atlantic seaboard of North-west Scotland. In Part I of this report, W. Kirk describes the site and its setting, and indicates some of the problems it raises for existing glacial chronologies of Northern Scotland, and in Part II, H. Godwin summarizes and comments upon the analyses of organic remains.

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Research Article
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Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of The Royal Society of Edinburgh , Volume 65 , Issue 11 , 1963 , pp. 225 - 249
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Copyright © Royal Society of Edinburgh 1963

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