A winter reconstruction of the corrie glacier that formed in Bowscale Tarn corrie, the Northern Fells, during the Younger Dryas Period (12,900- 11,700 years BP) .
The Younger Dryas, in NW Europe/Loch Lomond Stadial in Britain was a period of time after the last glacial maximum, when glaciers reformed and we returned to a period of cold conditions. While the most impressive evidence of this glacial regrowth can be found in Scotland, there is also evidence of a plateau icefield over the Lake District with most northern extent of ice at Bowscale Tarn near Mungrisdale. During this time conditions allowed for a small glacier to re-form in the corrie (a scoured out hollow in the crags, excavated by previous glacial activity) that Bowscale Tarn now sits in. I have reconstructed the Bowscale corrie glacier with snow cover in winter, where, due to its northerly aspect, it clung on during the Younger Dryas.
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