The Far Northwest:Sutherland, Assynt and Coigach

The far northwest of mainland Scotland is renowned for its scenery, structural complexity and geodiversity, and is designated as a UNESCO Global Geopark. The region is bisected by the Moine Thrust Zone (MTZ), west of which a foreland of undeformed Archaean gneiss supports inselbergs of Neoproterozoi...

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Main Authors: Bradwell, Tom, Ballantyne, Colin K.
Other Authors: Ballantyne, Colin K
Format: Book Part
Language:English
Published: Springer Science and Business Media B.V. 2021
Subjects:
Caves
Cirques
Coastal landforms
Glacial landsystems
Glacial megagrooves
Glacial troughs
Hummocky recessional moraines
Inselbergs
Karst
Knock-and-lochan topography
Landslides
Moine Thrust Zone
Periglacial features
Stable foreland
Loch Lomond
Ice Sheet
Online Access:https://risweb.st-andrews.ac.uk/portal/en/researchoutput/the-far-northwest(ff7f10f3-b2b5-44e1-8d7f-69aab46b1bd7).html
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71246-4_12
http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85114094742&partnerID=8YFLogxK

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