Glacially transported boulders, Glen More
Glen More, on the Isle of Mull, Scotland, is a classic locality for studying glacial landforms and sediments. Here, two prominent ice-transported boulders stand guard at the head of the valley, left behind after the Loch Lomond Readvance (Younger Dryas stade), the final pulse of Quaternary glaciation in Scotland. Behind them in the characteristic U-shaped valley, hummocky morraines are littered with glacial boulders, and the striated valley sides record westwards ice flow towards Loch Scridain.
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Taken on 12
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2017
Submitted on 15 February 2019
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Ian Watkinson (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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