The Ice Age in Scotland

Perth Theatre, January 16

Everyone reading the title of this event will no doubt cast their mind back to the recent freeze in Scotland and joke that the Ice Age wasn’t so long ago, but this time it’s a talk which invites the audience to cast their mind back much further.

As far back as two and a half million years ago, although even as relatively “recently” as 25,000 years ago, the country sat under an ice sheet which was a kilometre thick.

In this touring presentation, part of the “Inspiring People” series from the Royal Scottish Geographical Society in partnership with Tiso, Professor Colin Ballantyne of St Andrews University’s School of Geography and Sustainable Development will explore the impact of the shifting currents of the Ice Age upon the Scotland we know today, particularly how receding glaciers are responsible for the sculpting of the landscape.

Colin Ballantyne.