Chapter 5: THE COMING ICE AGE

PAST AND FUTURE CLIMATES IN THE HIGHLANDS

Explore the links below to find out more about the science behind this chapter...

Ice ages Louis Agassiz climate change ice cores Greenland ice cap Ocean Drilling Project oxygen isotopes Younger Dryas cave art glaciers Strath na Sealga nunataks Great Wood of Caledon Milankovitch cycles Creag Meagaidh Irish elk Little Ice Age global warming

• INSTRUCTIONS                                     
• 1:  A RED EARTH                                   
• 2:  DEEP SCAR: THE MOINE THRUST     
• 3:  THE FISH GRAVES OF ACHANARRAS
• 4:  VOLCANO                                         
• 5:  THE COMING ICE AGE                      
• 6:  LEFT-OVERS                                    
• 7:  HUTTON'S ARSE (1795)                     
• EPILOGUE                                             
• GLOSSARY                                            

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