Late Holocene floodplain incision and alluvial fan formation in the central Grampian Highlands, Scotland: chronology, environment and implications

Palaeoclimatic reconstruction from Loch Lomond Readvance glaciers in the West Drumochter Hills, Scotland

“…As the geomorphological, sedimentological and stratigraphic evidence in the West Drumochter Hills is consistently at variance with this interpretation, it is unlikely to have any validity in the adjacent area. Moreover, the pattern of recessional moraines in the Edendon Valley, 8 km east of Drumochter Pass, unequivocally implies northwards retreat of a locally nourished readvance glacier towards high ground (Sissons, 1974;Ballantyne and Whittington, 1999), closely analogous to the situation in the West Drumochter Hills and wholly inconsistent with Merritt's (2004) reinterpretation of the evidence in this area.…”

Holocene slope processes and landforms in the northern Faroe Islands

“…These types of colluvial sediments were also interpreted as representing extreme weather events in the form of winter snowstorms and extreme rainfall events respectively (Blikra & Selvik 1999). In the Scottish Highlands, Ballantyne & Whittington (1999) used the same combination of methods in studies of a Late Holocene alluvial fan. They also concluded that substantial alluvial-fan and debris-cone accumulation is controlled mainly by extreme rainstorm-generated events, and not by human interaction or long-term climate changes.…”

Holocene reworking of drift-mantled hillslopes in the Scottish Highlands

“…Perhaps the most important finding is that the accumulation of substantial debris cones may primarily reflect a very small number of localised, extreme storm events, and that such storms may represent the dominant formative events in some upland areas (cf. Ballantyne and Whittington, 1999). Moreover, although further dating of buried peats, palaeosols and depositional structures underlying drift slopes may yield a useful proxy record for reconstructing former single-disturbance meteorological events (cf.…”