| P number: | P002987 |
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| Old photograph number: | MNS06052/23 |
| Caption: | Oblique aerial view of Loch Coire an Lochain, Braeriach behind and Ben Macdui in the distance, Inverness-shire. A classic corrie created by glacial erosion. |
| Description: | Oblique aerial view of Loch Coire an Lochain, Braeriach behind and Ben Macdui in the distance, Inverness-shire. A classic corrie created by glacial erosion. One of the three corries on the northern flank of Braeriach, it contained a small glacier during the Loch Lomond Stadial, a period of less extensive glaciation. The valley glacier would have been formed by snow mostly blown off the plateau and accumulating in a hollow. As the ice gained thickness and moved downslope subglacial erosion would have deepened the hollow and at the bottom where there would have been active melting the rock debris carried by the glacier would have been deposited. This is what has happened in this corrie, the glacier deposited a series of nested end moraines which now impound the loch. |
| Photographer: | Bain, T.S. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 237.54 KB; 652 x 1000 pixels; 55 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 173 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Landscapes |
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