Auton, Clive. 2017 The Daless Viewpoint in the Middle Findhorn Valley. In: Merritt, J.; Auton, C.; Phillips, E., (eds.) The Quaternary aorund Nairn and the Inverness Firth. Field Guide. London, UK, Quaternary Research Association, 188-198.
The Findhorn valley, downstream of the Streens Gorge (Fig. 107),
contains a particularly good assemblage of glacial features and deposits
formed during, and following, the melting the last ice
-sheet. This remote
area is located 30 km south of Nairn, upstream of Drynachan Lodge [NH
865 397]. It is notable for a series of glaciofluvial and fluvial terraces that
occupy the lower part of the north
-west
-facin
g slope of Carn Torr
Mheadhoin (543 m OD), together with extensive glacial and glaciofluvial
deposits found within the valley between Daless and Creag a’ Chròcain
(McEwen and Werritty, 1993
).
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