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So far in the Cairngorm Mountains it has been impossible to confirm speculations about the physical extent of the glaciers of the Loch Lomond Readvance by absolute dating. As recently as 1970 it was therefore possible to argue without contradiction for anything between a full Scottish ice sheet and a handful of corrie glaciers1. Subsequentevidence from the adjacent Spey Valley precludes the former possibility2,3, and attention is now focused on the possibility that there was restricted ice cover about the time of the Loch Lomond Readvance. Evidence from the vicinity of Loch Builg, at an altitude of 525 m in the eastern Cairngorms, throws further light on the problem.
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CLAPPERTON, C., GUNSON, A. & SUGDEN, D. Loch Lomond Readvance in the eastern Cairngorms. Nature 253, 710–712 (1975). https://doi.org/10.1038/253710a0
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