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5. Glacier margins and sea levels
Sea levels were quite early on seen as one method of
correlating glacier margins, but this was later discounted as the complexities
of sea level change became appreciated. However, there developed a number of
detailed studies linking ice limits locally with sea levels (e.g. Cullingford
and Smith, 1980; Sissons and Dawson, 1981; Firth, 1988). Two of these studies (Sissons
and Smith, 1965; Sutherland, 1984) recognised evidence that the advance of
glaciers had resulted in temporary re-depression of the uplifting crust in some
areas, thus adding further detail to the pattern of glacio-isostatic uplift.
A staircase of Lateglacial rock platforms at Kincraig in the Firth of Forth
