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Site no.: Q25

Site name: Anagach Eskers

Grid reference: [NJ 04601 27643]

Locality: Woods of Anagach Country Park, 1.5 km SE of Grantown-on- Spey

GCR Status: N/A

GCR No.: N/A

Type: Natural landform assemblage

Description: A network of gravel ridges (eskers) occur within the Woods of Anagach Country Park. The eskers are typically 5 to 10 m high and lie parallel to one another with few bifurcations.

Justification: Good examples of parallel eskers, which were either deposited within subglacial tunnels within a stagnant, decaying ice lobe, or within channels cut into the surface of buried ice.

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