using landscapes

• Loch Lomond stadial:

  • Fast cooling between 12,900 and 11,700 years ago 
  • West side of country due to rainfall brought by pacific 
  • Found in Scotland 
• Lake held back by ice dam, broke through in stages. Can be dated using organic matter on beaches. 
• Lack of pollen from time period in loch area due to covering by glacier. 
• Chelford interstadial:

  •  warming 65,000 to 60,000 years ago 
  • Evidence of fluvial sands and beetles found in heather environments 
  • Fluvioglacial and glacial sediments over the top of these deposits so glacial conditions returned