The Daless Viewpoint in the Middle Findhorn Valley

• Main Author: Auton, Clive
• Other Authors: Merritt, J., Auton, C., Phillips, E.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Quaternary Research Association 2017
• Subjects: Earth Sciences; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518592/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/518592/1/Daless.pdf; https://www.qra.org.uk/field-guides/

The 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 ).