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North-west Highlands, by radiocarbon dates on reindeer antlers from Creag nan Uamh (Lawson, 1984) of approximately 25,000 BP. Thus there appears to have been an interstadial period towards the end of the Middle Devensian.

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Inverness area,th associated with multiple till successions, together with detailed reinvestigation of the Clava succession, has enabled the development of a provisional stratigraphy extending back to the Anglian (Merritt, 1990a).

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grudging

Eastern Highland Boundary,r the development of vegetation during both the Lateglacial Interstadial and the Holocene as it is adjacent to the Highland Boundary Fault, one of the major topographical, geological and ecotonal boundaries in Scotland.

Panacea

Outer Hebrides, However, despite an initial period of interest in the Quaternary history of the islands during the last century it has only been within the last fifteen years that this fascinating area has begun to be studied in detail.

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erms of landforms, processes and plant communities, tosevere climatic change as the Quaternary era progressed over the lasttwo million years. .This legacy, as preserved in the 138 nationally important GCR sitesdescribed, documents a remarkable diversity of landforms in arelatively small area. The ru

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glans-penis

The Quaternary in Scotland,pre-Quaternary time. However, there are few on-land deposits that predate the Quaternary and the great majority of the relict features in the landscape are erosional and therefore difficult to date. Consequently there has been a range of interpretations and reconstructions concerning the existence,