22.—The Terraces of Glen Feshie, Inverness-shire
Synopsis Detailed mapping and accurate heighting reveal the extent of a well-preserved terrace system whose highest fragments lie c. 40 m above contemporary stream level. Kame terraces, pitted outwash terraces, terraces dissected by braided rivers and fan terraces are identified. The terrace fragmen...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0080456800015532 2024-03-03T08:45:26+00:00 22.—The Terraces of Glen Feshie, Inverness-shire Young, J. A. T. 1976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800015532 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0080456800015532 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh volume 69, issue 22, page 501-512 ISSN 1755-6910 1755-6929 General Earth and Planetary Sciences General Environmental Science journal-article 1976 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0080456800015532 2024-02-08T08:25:39Z Synopsis Detailed mapping and accurate heighting reveal the extent of a well-preserved terrace system whose highest fragments lie c. 40 m above contemporary stream level. Kame terraces, pitted outwash terraces, terraces dissected by braided rivers and fan terraces are identified. The terrace fragments form a valley train whose uppermost levels were produced when glacier ice was still present in the glen. As successive streams readjusted to postglacial hydrological conditions, they excavated the valley fill of glacial deposits and carved out the terraces. It is inferred that subsequent stream discharges were generally smaller than those associated with deglaciation at the end of the period of ice sheet wastage. Areally extensive, heavily dissected, low level terraces are suggested to have been produced by meltwaters from a later deglaciation at the end of Zone III. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ice Sheet Cambridge University Press Earth and Environmental Science Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh 69 22 501 512 |
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Synopsis Detailed mapping and accurate heighting reveal the extent of a well-preserved terrace system whose highest fragments lie c. 40 m above contemporary stream level. Kame terraces, pitted outwash terraces, terraces dissected by braided rivers and fan terraces are identified. The terrace fragments form a valley train whose uppermost levels were produced when glacier ice was still present in the glen. As successive streams readjusted to postglacial hydrological conditions, they excavated the valley fill of glacial deposits and carved out the terraces. It is inferred that subsequent stream discharges were generally smaller than those associated with deglaciation at the end of the period of ice sheet wastage. Areally extensive, heavily dissected, low level terraces are suggested to have been produced by meltwaters from a later deglaciation at the end of Zone III. |
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22.—The Terraces of Glen Feshie, Inverness-shire |
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