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Site no.: Q5

Site name: Southern Gaick Sections

Grid reference: [NN 76316 74485]; [NN 74719 73890]

Locality: River cliff sections in the valleys of the Allt a' Chireachain and Allt Glas Coire, 5 km north of Dalnamein Lodge

GCR Status: N/A

GCR No.: N/A

Type: Natural sections

Description: Exposures of sand, gravel, silt and clay of glaciofluvial deltaic origin underlying till of the last regional glaciation.

Justification: These sections provide unique evidence of events immediately prior to the Gaick Plateau becoming inundated by ice during the Main Late Devensian Glaciation and which have a bearing on research modelling the last ice sheet

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