CANCELLED INQUA Congress 2019 (Pst:QGL-4): Different Styles of Younger Dryas Glaciation in the Northwestern and Central Scottish Highlands
Unfortunately this trip did not receive enough bookings to be financially viable, and has been cancelled as of the start of April 2019.
Date: 1st – 5th August 2019
Leader: Dr Sven Lukas
Contact email: sven.lukas@geol.lu.se; QRA administrator, Mrs Val Siviter, admin@qra.org.uk
Guide price: (including travel and accommodation, excluding meals) £420 (single occupancy)/£315 (shared occupancy)
CANCELLED INQUA Congress 2019 (Pst:QGL-4): Different Styles of Younger Dryas Glaciation in the Northwestern and Central Scottish Highlands
Unfortunately this trip did not receive enough bookings to be financially viable, and has been cancelled as of the start of April 2019.
Date: 1st – 5th August 2019
Leader: Dr Sven Lukas
Contact email: sven.lukas@geol.lu.se; QRA administrator, Mrs Val Siviter, admin@qra.org.uk
Guide price: (including travel and accommodation, excluding meals) £420 (single occupancy)/£315 (shared occupancy)

This
fieldtrip will visit mountainous locations in the Northwestern (Sutherland) and
Central Highlands (Monadhliath, Gaick Plateau, Pass of Drumochter) as well as
sites en route that will be of broad interest (Wester Ross, Torridon, Glen
Roy). Themes centre on different styles of Younger Dryas glaciation (corrie
glaciers, transection glacier complexes, plateau ice-caps) and include a
diverse range of problems, such as the effects of topography on the style of
glaciation, especially ice retreat, palaeoenvironmental records inside and
outside glaciated sites, challenges of dating glacier fluctuations in Scotland
using radiocarbon, cosmogenic radionuclide (CRN) and optically-stimulated
luminescence (OSL) dating, geomorphological contrasts between Younger Dryas and
older phases of glaciation (e.g. Wester Ross Readvance, equivalent to the
Heinrich 1 event, which will also be visited en route), processes of moraine
formation and ice-mass-based palaeoclimate reconstruction. Travel arrangements
will be made so that participants can easily arrange their own stay in Scotland
after the trip or travel elsewhere in Europe.