Local Pleistocene Glaciation and the Level of the Snow Line of Croaghaun Mountain in Achill Island, Co. Mayo, Ireland

摘要: The group of corries on Croaghaun Mountain Achill Island is described. existence these and the absence any extraneous drift from mountain taken as evidence that inland ice Co. Mayo did not extend far beyond present coast. relation to local topography described, effect apparent snow line discussed. probable main glaciation west Ireland shown be in neighbourhood 1250 ft. O.D. (384 m.) but may have been low 1000 (305 Late-glacial period 1750 (533 m.).