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
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Site no.: Q35
Site name: Inchriach Terraces
Grid reference:
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.