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...ding, soil type and geology must be taken into account. In this study, the moraine soils are very permeable and implementing drainage ...s type of system may be a better way to mitigate flooding in the permeable moraine substrates in upland Scotland. ...

...meable layers to create localised areas of perched water tables within the moraine slopes. ...nd and during a dry period, the deeper peat soils toward the bottom of the moraine were observed to dry out and crack. However, as there is a lack of high int ...

...aphy is comprised of undulating moraine deposits, creating hill crests and moraine depressions overlying the Ardveriki Till Formation on micaceous psammite (s * Peat was significantly thinner in moraine depressions and thinnest on moraine crests. ...

[[Image:P212915.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Kettlehole in glacial moraine, Canon Bridge, Herefordshire. [https://geoscenic.bgs.ac.uk/asset-bank/action ...glaciers piles of debris built up creating distinctive landforms including moraine, eskers and kettleholes ('''Plate P212915'''). ...

...fs at Shellag Point, Isle of Man, cut in glacigenic sediments of the Bride Moraine that have been subjected to glacitectonic deformation. (P649468a).]] ...ted by significant unconformities and abut the Bride Moraine, a major push moraine complex [[Media:P916099.jpg|(P916099)]]. The Shellag Formation, which forme ...

# They are located on the same psammite micaceous bedrock and moraine system. # Both sites are situated downslope below moraine crests, above the break of the slope and are easily accessible. ...

...trench section through the Ardersier Silts Formation that crop out in the moraine that forms the Lateglacial cliffline, near the village of Ardersier in the ...nd glaciotectonic displacement that took place during the formation of the moraine. The upper portion of the newly exposed section, exhibits many of the featu ...

...ut in the Goodie Water east of the Forth Glacier moraine, and the terminal moraine itself, demonstrate these relative changes in sea level as Loch Lomond Stad ...

...ted granite, derived from the underlying bedrock. Good examples of lateral moraine ridges, occur between Powlair (NO 621 912) and Green-dams (NO 649 900). Sim ...18 m high, at Rouchan (NO 640 897) (Auton et al., 1990). The cross-valley moraine at Lady’s Moss and the morainic ridges between Shillofad and Kerloch lie cl ...

... 532 920], and a persistent glacial meltwater channel commonly borders the moraine on its southern side. ...bsp;6. (London: Chapman & Hall.)</ref>. Whilst the southerly parts of this moraine assemblage, extending southwards from Dykehead [NS 598 978] to Garden, exhi ...

...nd storage, when the gravel/sandy substrate below the forest (in this case moraine deposits) is highly permeable. The Old Forest however is a community of div ...but rather water flow is predominantly downslope towards the bottom of the moraine, creating an accumulation of water within the perched bog that seeps into t ...

| Till; moraine; hummocky/moundy glacial deposits6; head7; lacustrine deposits where domina ...descriptions. For the purposes of consistency, this map classes all till, moraine and hummocky/moundy glacial deposits as Not a Significant Aquifer. Note, ho ...

...d hummocky/moundy glacial deposits, although recent evidence suggests that moraine is typically significantly more permeable than till. ...undy deposits, but this set up a false division between mapped ‘till’ and ‘moraine’, which in reality cannot be distinguished. It therefore also gave a false ...

...to modify the original proposal and focus on understanding the undulating moraine terrain in terms of spring development within adjacent plantation and Old F ...igating the larger context of forest distribution and hydrology within the moraine terrain. The proposed changes restructured the project into the following s ...

...nsistent across the whole country, it was therefore decided that all till, moraine and hummocky/moundy glacial deposits would be classed as Not a Significant ...

...an be around 10&nbsp;m thick. Extensive northeast-southwest trending rogen moraine formed between the Erne Basin and Co. Armagh <ref>McCabe, A M, Knight, J, a ...s, G F, and Hanney, P. 1984. Sedimentology of a Late Pleistocene submarine moraine complex, County Down, Northern Ireland. ''Journal of Sedimentary Petrology' ...

=== Locality 3, Swainby Moraine and Glacial Spillways === ...The locality is described as a 'gutter' on the inner edge of the Scugdale Moraine, attributed to glaciofluvial erosion, and its final silting-up is therefore ...

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...owing around the north end of Eigg, whereas the western ridge is a lateral moraine formed as the same ice mass decayed. Good examples of kettleholes occur in ...er streams entered the sea, to form the lower levels of the 'Loch Don Sand-Moraine' (Bailey et al., 1924; Benn and Evans, 1993; see below). ...

...eadvance limit at Carlisle; SB Scandal Beck interstadial site; StB St Bees Moraine; T Troutbeck interglacial sites; TG Tyne Gap; TV Team Valley. (P916120).]] [[File:P916101.jpg|thumbnail|Sketch of part of the push moraine exposed south-east of St Bees beach. P916101.]] ...