PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Tipping, Richard
TI  - Radiocarbon dating of a composite multi-period debris cone stratigraphy in the Lochan na Lairige, Ben Lawers
AID  - 10.1144/sjg2021-008
DP  - 2021 Nov 01
TA  - Scottish Journal of Geology
PG  - sjg2021-008
VI  - 57
IP  - 2
4099  - http://sjg.lyellcollection.org/content/57/2/sjg2021-008.short
4100  - http://sjg.lyellcollection.org/content/57/2/sjg2021-008.full
AB  - An early stage in formation of a composite debris cone in the glacial trough of the Lochan na Lairige, on Ben Lawers, is 14C dated to 6398–6225 cal years BP. A large proportion of the debris cone comprises a structureless gravel with boulders, possibly deposited in a single event. Blanket peat formed on the debris cone surface at 3820–3496 cal years BP. Sediment slurries are recorded across the peat after this time, at c. 3950–c. 3100, c. 2000 and c. 1400 cal years BP, and at c. 1200–c. 1100 cal years BP. They were much less significant events. They can be related to periods of higher effective precipitation in the region.