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Scottish sea levels –

some benchmark publications

Bradley, S.L. Milne, G.A., Shennan, I. and Edwards, R. 2011. An improved Glacial Isostatic Adjustment model for the British Isles. Journal of Quaternary Science 26, 541-552. Abstract
 
Cullingford, R.A. and Smith, D.E. 1980. Late Devensian raised shorelines in Angus and Kincardineshire. Boreas 9, 21-38. Abstract
 
Cullingford, R.A., Smith, D.E. and Firth, C.R. 1991. The altitude and age of the Main Postglacial Shoreline in eastern Scotland. Quaternary International 9, 39-52. Abstract
 
Dawson, A.G. 1984. Quaternary sea-level changes in western Scotland. Quaternary Science Reviews 3, 345-368. Abstract.
 
Dawson, A.G., Long, D. and Smith, D.E. 1988. The Storegga Slide: evidence from Scotland for a possible tsunami. Marine Geology 82, 271-276. Abstract.
 
Dawson, S. and Smith, D.E. 1997. Holocene relative sea-level changes on the margin of a glacio-isostatically uplifted area: an example from northern Caithness, Scotland. The Holocene 7, 59-77. Abstract.
 
Dutton, C.E. 1889. On some of the greater problems of physical geology. Bulletin of the Philosophical Society of Washington, 11, 51-64.
 
Firth, C.R. 1988. Late Devensian raised shorelines and ice limits in the inner Moray Firth area, northern Scotland. Boreas 18, 5-21.Abstract.
 
Firth, C.R. and Haggart, B.A. 1989. Loch Lomond Stadial and Flandrian shorelines in the inner Moray Firth area, Scotland. Journal of Quaternary Science 4, 37-50. Abstract.
 
Hutton, J. 1795. The Theory of the Earth. Edinburgh.
 
Jamieson, T.F. 1865. On the history of the last geological changes in Scotland. Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London 21, 161-203.
 
Jamieson, T.F. 1882. On the cause of depression and re-elevation of the land during the glacial period. Geological Magazine 9, 400-407. Abstract
 
Jamieson, T.F. 1906. On the raised beaches of the Geological Survey of Scotland. Geological Magazine, NS5(2), 484-490.
 
Lambeck, K. 1995. Late Devensian and Holocene shorelines of the British Isles and North Sea from models of glacio-isostatic rebound. Journal of the Geological Society of London 152, 437-448. Abstract.
 
Maclaren, C. 1842. The glacial theory of Professor Agassiz. American Journal of Science 117, 43-68.
 
Peacock, J.D. 1999. The Pre-Windermere Interstadial (Late Devensian) raised marine strata of eastern Scotland and their macrofauna: a review. Quaternary Science Reviews 18, 1655-1680. Abstract.
 
Peacock, J.D. 1996. Marine molliscan proxy data applied to Scottish late glacial and Flandrian sites: Strengths and limitations. In. Andrews, J.T., Austin, W.E.N., Bergsten, H. and Jennings, A.E. (eds.) Late Quaternary Palaeoceanography of the North Atlantic Margins. Geological Society Special Publication 111, 215-228. Abstract.
 
Playfair, J. 1802. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the Earth. Edinburgh.
 
Peltier, W.R., Shennan, I., Drummond, R.and Horton, B. 2002. On the postglacial isostatic adjustment of the British Isles and the shallow viscoelastic structure of the Earth. Geophysical Journal International 148, 443-475.Abstract.
 
Playfair, J. 1802. Illustrations of the Huttonian theory of the Earth. Edinburgh.
 
Shennan, I., Innes, J.B., Long, A. and Zong, Y. 1995. Late Devensian and Holocene relative sea-level changes in northwestern Scotland: new data to test existing models. Quaternary International 26, 97-123. Abstract.
 
Shennan, I., Lambeck, K., Horton, B., Innes, J., Lloyd, J., McArthur, J., Purcell, T. and Rutherford, M. 2000. Late Devensian and Holocene records of relative sea level changes in northwest Scotland and their implications for glacio-hydro-isostatic modelling. Quaternary Science Reviews 19, 1103-1135.Abstract.
 
Sissons, J.B. 1963. Scottish raised shoreline heights with particlar reference to the Forth valley. Geografiska Annaler 45, 180-185.Abstract.
 
Sissons, J.B. 1966. Relative sea-level changes between 10300 and 8300 B.P. in part of the Carse of Stirling. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39, 19-29.Abstract.
 
Sissons, J.B. 1967. The evolution of Scotland’s scenery. Oliver and Boyd, Edinburgh.
 
Sissons, J.B. 1972. Dislocation and non-uniform uplift of raised shorelines in the western part of the Forth valley. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 55, 145-159. Abstract.
 
Sissons, J.B. 1974. Late-glacial marine erosion in Scotland. Boreas 3, 41-48. Abstract.
 
Sissons, J.B. and Smith, D.E. 1965. Raised shorelines associated with the Perth Readvance in the Forth valley and their relation to glacial isostasy. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 66, 143-168.Abstract.
 
Sissons, J.B., Cullingford, R.A. and Smith, D.E. 1966. Late-glacial and post-glacial shorelines in South-East Scotland. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 39, 9-18. Abstract.
 
Sissons, J.B. and Dawson, A.G. 1981. Former sea-levels and icelimits in part of Wester Ross, northwest Scotland. Proceedings of the Geologists’ Association 92, 115-124. Abstract.
 
Smith, D.E., Sissons, J.B. and Cullingford, R.A. 1969. Isobases for the Main Perth raised shoreline in South-East Scotland as determined by trend-surface analysis. Transactions of the Institute of British Geographers 46, 45-52. Abstract.
 
Smith, D.E., Cullingford, R.A. and Haggart, B.A. 1985. A major coastal flood during the Holocene in eastern Scotland. Eiszeitalter und Gegenwart 35, 104-118. Abstract.
 
Smith, D.E., Cullingford, R.A. and Firth, C.R. 2000. Patterns of isostatic land uplift during the Holocene: evidence from mainland Scotland. The Holocene 10, 395-407. Abstract.
 
Smith, D.E., Raper, S.B., Zerbini, S. and Sanchez-Arcilla, A. 2000. Sea Level Change and Coastal Processes: Implications for Europe. European Commission, Brussels.
 
Smith, D.E., Cullingford, R.A. and Firth, C.R. 2002. Relative sea level trends during the early-middle Holocene along the coast of mainland Scotland. Boreas 33, 185-202. Abstract.
 
Smith, D.E., Wells, J.M., Mighall, T., Cullingford, R.A., Holloway, L.K., Dawson, S. and Brooks, C.L. 2003. Holocene relative sea levels and coastal changes in the lower Cree valley and estuary, SW Scotland, U.K. Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh: Earth Sciences 93, 301-331.Abstract.
 
Smith, D.E., Shi, S., Cullingford, R.A., Dawson, A.G., Dawson, S., Firth, C.R., Foster, I.D.L., Fretwell, P.T., Haggart, B.A., Holloway, L.K. and Long, D. 2004. The Holocene Storegga Slide tsunami in the United Kingdom. Quaternary Science Reviews 23, 2291-
2321. Abstract.
 
Smith, D.E., Fretwell, P.T., Cullingford, R.A. and Firth, C.R. 2006. Towards improved empirical models of Holocene land uplift for mainland Scotland, UK. Philosophical Trannsactions of the Royal Society, Series A, 364, 949-972.Abstract.
 
Smith, D.E., Davies, M.H., Brooks, C.L., Mighall, T.M., Dawson, S., Rea, B.R. and Jordan, J.T. 2010. Holocene relative sea levels and related prehistoric activity in the Forth lowland, Scotland, United Kingdom. Quaternary Science Reviews 29, 2392-2410. Abstract.
 
Sutherland, D.G. 1984. The Quaternary deposits and landforms of Scotland and the neighbouring shelves: a review. Quaternary Science Reviews 3, 157-254. Abstract.
 
Wright, W.B. 1934. The isokinetic theory of glacially controlled shorelines. Comptes rendus du congrès internationale  de gèographie, Varsovie, 534-553.