Wester Ross

• Main Authors: Ballantyne, Colin K., Bradwell, Tom
• Other Authors: Gordon, John E.
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Springer Science and Business Media B.V. 2021
• Subjects: Aeolian sand deposits; Blockfields; Cirques; Debris flows; Fjord landsystems; Glacial troughs; Landslides; Seabed moraines; Solifluction lobes; Talus; Wester Ross Readvance; Loch Lomond; Ice Sheet
• Online Access: https://research-portal.st-andrews.ac.uk/en/publications/ff523a22-dfe3-468c-aa16-02b520959ec7; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71246-4_13; https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71246-4; https://discover.libraryhub.jisc.ac.uk/search?isn=9783030712457&rn=1

Wester Ross is an area of striking geodiversity, containing some of the most impressive glacial and postglacial landforms in Scotland. The region is bisected by the Moine Thrust Zone, west of which a platform of Archaean gneiss supports Torridonian sandstone mountains, and east of which the geology...