Abstract
Abstract The limits of seventeen glaciers that developed in the Cairngorms during the Loch Lomond Stadial are mapped using end moraines, boulder limits, hummocky moraine and other evidence. The sizes, distribution and altitudes of the glaciers (along with other factors) and the absence of glaciers from some localities where they might have been expected to occur indicate that the principal snowfalls were associated with winds from southerly points (probably from south‐east) and that south‐west winds were important in transferring snow to some glaciers. It is inferred that snowfall diminished towards the north and north‐west. Protalus ramparts, other boulder deposits associated with former snow beds, and fossil rock glaciers are described and discussed.
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