Welsh Journals

Fig. i. Inferred ice limits in Gower by different authors (after Bowen and Henry, 1984). Gower: The Ice Age Limit by E. M. Bridges A subject which is capable of raising the academic temperature-and per- haps ensuring that another ice age does not take place in the immediate future-is the limit of glaciation in Gower. Over the past fifty years much has been written about how far glaciers extended during the Pleistocene Ice Age and verbal rhetoric has been equally prolific. Gower, it seems, occu- pied a critical position in South Wales during the Ice Age when many of the details of our present landscape were formed. The various landforms and geological deposits of Gower contain evidence, which if correctly inter- preted can provide information about the times when South Wales was glaciated.