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.: Q5
Site name: Southern Gaick Sections
Grid reference:
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