A PDF of this report is available from the NORA, the NERC archive Barron, H F, Gillespie, M R and Merritt, J W 2011. Geodiversity of the Cairngorms National Park. British Geological Survey Open Report, OR/10/019

Site no.: Q35

Site name: Inchriach Terraces

Grid reference: [NH 89119 06233]

Locality: Bench features and associated channels on the mountainside south of Loch an Eilein.

GCR Status: N/A

GCR No.: N/A

Type: Natural landform assemblage

Description: A staircase of boulder-strewn benches and associated glacial meltwater channels, where higher channels truncate, or feed into, lower ones, indicating that they formed progressively as an ice margin retreated.

Justification: Good examples of kame terraces and related features formed at the retreating margin of the Spey outlet glacier during ice- sheet deglaciation.

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