Scotland's Mountain Landscapes : : A Geomorphological Perspective.
The diversity of Scotland's mountains is remarkable, ranging from the isolated summits of the far northwest, through the tor-studded high plateau of the Cairngorms to the hills of the Southern Uplands. Colin Ballantyne explains the geological and geomorphological evolution of Scotland's mo...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Liverpool : : Liverpool University Press,, 2019. Ã2019. |
| Year of Publication: | 2019 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (185 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- 1 Introduction
- The land of the mountain and the flood
- Geology and geomorphology
- Weathering, erosion and deposition
- Dating the past: the geological timescale
- Dating the Quaternary
- About this book
- 2 The geological evolution of Scotland
- Introduction
- Rocks
- Plate tectonics
- Geological evolution: the making of Scotland
- Conclusion
- 3 Rocks, relief and the preglacial landscape
- Introduction
- Structural grain: the ripples of orogeny
- Rocks and relief
- Cenozoic landscape evolution
- Synthesis
- Before the ice: the preglacial landscape of Scotland
- 4 The Ice Age in Scotland
- Ice ages: an introduction
- Glacial and interglacial stages
- Glaciers and glaciation
- The last Scottish Ice Sheet
- The last mountain glaciers: the Loch Lomond Stade
- The Holocene
- Synthesis
- 5 Glacial landforms
- Introduction
- Landforms of glacial erosion
- Landforms of glacial deposition
- Glacifluvial landforms and deposits
- Ice-dammed lakes
- Synthesis: glacial landscapes of Scotland
- 6 Periglacial landforms
- Introduction
- Ancient periglacial landforms: blockfields and tors
- Lateglacial periglacial landforms
- Active periglacial landforms
- Synthesis
- 7 Landslides and related features
- Introduction
- Rock-slope failures
- Rockfall, talus and snow avalanche landforms
- Slope failures in soil and peat
- Debris flows
- Conclusion
- 8 Aeolian landforms
- Introduction
- Aeolian processes
- Landforms produced by wind erosion
- Aeolian deposits
- Conclusion
- 9 Fluvial landforms
- Introduction
- Mountain rivers
- River terraces
- Alluvial fans
- Conclusion
- Postscript: into the Anthropocene
- 10 Key sites
- Introduction
- An Teallach, Wester Ross
- Torridon, Wester Ross
- The Trotternish escarpment, Isle of Skye.
- The Cuillin Hills, Isle of Skye
- Glen Roy, Lochaber
- Glen Coe, Western Grampians
- The Cairngorms
- Drumochter Pass, Central Grampians
- Tinto Hill, Southern Uplands
- Further reading
- Index of locations in Scotland
- Index of Scottish mountains and hills
- General Index.