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... water , the ridges were gradually worn away . Rivers esta- blished for themselves an orderly system of valleys , transverse or longitudinal . Capture of one stream by another took place , and the 1 Summary of Progress of the Geolog ...
... water , the ridges were gradually worn away . Rivers esta- blished for themselves an orderly system of valleys , transverse or longitudinal . Capture of one stream by another took place , and the 1 Summary of Progress of the Geolog ...
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... water is well known . A stream rushes with the full force of its current against a boulder . It is deflected ... worn THE PHYSICAL GEOLOGY OF THE DEE VALLEY . 29.
... water is well known . A stream rushes with the full force of its current against a boulder . It is deflected ... worn THE PHYSICAL GEOLOGY OF THE DEE VALLEY . 29.
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... worn surfaces or are mantled by a thin coating of boulder - clay . Hollows have been filled up and inequalities of ... water have a similar origin — the Loch of Skene , 1 Loch Davan , 1 and the Loch of Loirston ( though there is a ...
... worn surfaces or are mantled by a thin coating of boulder - clay . Hollows have been filled up and inequalities of ... water have a similar origin — the Loch of Skene , 1 Loch Davan , 1 and the Loch of Loirston ( though there is a ...
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... worn rock at Leys of Crathes . A similar parallelism of minor surface ... water derived from the melting of the ice . These fluvio- glacial deposits ... water . By these the rubbish lodged at the edge of the ice or between the ice and the ...
... worn rock at Leys of Crathes . A similar parallelism of minor surface ... water derived from the melting of the ice . These fluvio- glacial deposits ... water . By these the rubbish lodged at the edge of the ice or between the ice and the ...
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... Water - worn Gravel and Sand . ( See p . 45. ) = Fluvio - glacial Gravels ( Overwash Deposits ) ( ? ) . = Recent River Terrace . The ridges near Loch of Loirston , on Tullos Hill , near Corbie Loch and farther north are moraines of ...
... Water - worn Gravel and Sand . ( See p . 45. ) = Fluvio - glacial Gravels ( Overwash Deposits ) ( ? ) . = Recent River Terrace . The ridges near Loch of Loirston , on Tullos Hill , near Corbie Loch and farther north are moraines of ...
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Aberdeen Aboyne alluvial fan Ballater basin Beinn a Bhuird Ben-y-gloe boulder-clay Braemar Braeriach Bridge Cairngorms Cambus Clais Fhearna Fault corries course Culblean Culter Dee Valley Deeside denudation detritus Devil's Point Dinnet drainage drained Eddart eroded erosion feet Feshie Feugh flat flowing Gairn Garchory Garrol Geikie Geldie Geol glacial glacial stream glacier Glen Dee Glen Tilt gradient granite Highlands Hill hollow Horizontal Scale Ice Age ice-erosion ice-movement ice-sheet intake kames Kinnord lake lateral moraine Leuchar Burn Loch Muick Lochan Lochnagar lower main valley Mathieson mile Morven Murtle occupied open reach origin overflow channel P. J. Anderson partly Photo post-glacial Potarch pre-glacial Prof quartzite Quoich retreat river roches moutonnées rock-gorge Scenery schists schmelzwasser scree Section Sheet side slope Slugain solid rock Spey steep surface Tarland terminal moraines terraces tributaries Tullich Burn upper valley-wall Vertical Scale VIEW water-worn waterfall watershed weathering