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Cloddymoss, Culbin Forest
No full textSite details and interpretation of exposure in the distal facies of the Ardersier Silts Formation exposed in a temporary working at Cloddy Moss in the Culbin Forest nature reserve, west of Forres, NE Scotland
The Daless Viewpoint in the Middle Findhorn Valley
No full textThe Findhorn valley, downstream of the Streens Gorge (Fig. 107),
contains a particularly good assemblage of glacial features and deposits
formed during, and following, the melting the last ice
-sheet. This remote
area is located 30 km south of Nairn, upstream of Drynachan Lodge [NH
865 397]. It is notable for a series of glaciofluvial and fluvial terraces that
occupy the lower part of the north
-west
-facin
g slope of Carn Torr
Mheadhoin (543 m OD), together with extensive glacial and glaciofluvial
deposits found within the valley between Daless and Creag a’ Chròcain
(McEwen and Werritty, 1993
)
Sites within the Middle Findhorn Valley and across the Dulnain-Findhorn catchment divide. Highland Boath
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The Dalcharn Interglacial site
No full textThe sequence of sediments exposed in river clif
f sections of the Allt Dearg
at Dalcharn (
Fig. 72),
some 6 km south
-west of the village of Cawdor [NH
845 500], includes interglacial organic deposits that are both underlain
and overlain by till. The sequence is remarkable for the information it has
yield
ed on the Quaternary history of the region and the potential it holds
for providing further elaboration of this record
Ardersier Peninsula and the Ardersier Silts Formation
No full textT
he Ardersier Peninsula is formed mainly of rhythmically bedded silts and
sands of probable glaciomarine origin (
Ardersier Silts Fm
), locally capped
by till, and trimmed on the north and west sides by Late Devensian (late
-
glacial) and Holocene (postglacial or Flandrian) raised shorelines. The
peninsula rises to an altitude of about 40 m OD, but the highest marine
features are shingle ridges at 28
-31 m OD, below which lie late
-glacial
shoreline fragments at altitudes of 28.5 m, 26.6 m, 21
-21.6 m and 18.5 m
OD (Firth, 1984, 1989b) (Fig. 30). The prominent ‘Main Postglacial
Cliffline’ borders raised shingle beach ridges at about 11 m OD (see cover
photo). This prominent abandoned cliff
line was generally thought to
have been created by marine erosion
during the Holocene, but it is now
considered to have been formed mainly in the cold climate of the Loch
Lomond Stadial (Younger Dryas) and that the feature was only trimmed
during the mid
- Holocene
( Sissons, 1981a). The peninsula includes
important evide
nce for a significant glacial readvance within the
Inverness Firth, termed the
Ardersier Readvance
by J.S. Smith (1968,
1977) or the
Ardersier Oscillation
by Merritt et al. (1995)
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