Glaciation and sea-level change in NW Scotland: established views, new results and future work. During the Last Glacial Maximum, around 24,000-28,000 years ago, the British-Irish Ice Sheet covered approximately 850,000 km 2 – around half the size of the present-day Greenland Ice Sheet – and contained enough ice to raise global sea levels by around […]

Con Gillen compares the Lewisian Gneiss of the Hebrides to that of the NWH Geopark. This talk will start by looking at the components of the Lewisian Gneiss Complex in the Northwest Highlands and the Hebrides, and the main divisions into blocks or 'terranes', before considering the structure and history of the Lewisian in the […]