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Rothesay
Leaving Arran and travelling 10km north east, we reach the Island of Bute. The contrasts with the scenery of Arran are very marked. The rocks were much less resistant and were fomerly laid out in a series of ridges. This ridged ladscape was smoothed flat by the main scottish ice sheets. The long nar...
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Pyramidal Peak
Goat Fell is a highly glaciated mountain area. The island was a source of individual glaciers that joined the wide mass of ice carving down the thin ford that is now the Firth of Clyde. Resistant rocks have maintained their aretes and pyramidal peaks.
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Goat Fell
Te hard volcanic rock of Goat Fell was high enough, at nearly 1,000 metres, to develop and maintain its own ice cap throughout the ice age. The island of Bute in the Firth of Clyde was lower lying and made of less resistant materia. The Clyde glaciers overwhelmed it, with the result that the landsca...
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Glaciated Landscape
The peaks and corries of Goat Fell are the highest on the island reaching nearly 1000 metres. The island ice cap was centred here high above the glaciers of the Firth of Forth. Note the Firth of Clyde in the background of this image looking eastwards towards Ardrossan.
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Aretes
Further into the mountains, the complex pattern of Aretes seperate cwms and hanging valleys are prominent features on Goat Fell. North East facing corries maintained their glaciers longer and these eroded further back into the peaks and aretes displacing the line of the ridge.
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Glen Sannox
Large U shaped valeys, carved by glaciers moving out from the pyramidal peaks of the central Arran mountains, now carry misfit streams. These streams meander in order to maintain their channel flow in the moraine clogged valley floor. Carved between two of the highest peaks on the island, Glen Sanno...
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Brodick (Arran)
The highest peaks of Arran maintained their glaciers throughout the ice age. As the main scottish ice caps retreated , Arrans mountains maintained their own glacier. The hard volcanic rocks of the Arran mountains were eroded slowly to produce a sharply defined glaciated landscape. This photograph lo...
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The island of Bute
The island of bute was overwhelmed by this ice and much of its low lying with shallow ribbon lakes. Arran with its intensely complex mass of volcanic rock was resistant enough to maintain its own mountain around which the main glacier of the Clyde area flowed and high enough to maintain its own ice...
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Glaciation of ana ar...
Arran has 2 climates, mountains and areas of lowland moraine. With 11 peaks over 600 metres and Goat Fell reaching nearly 1000 metres, Arran preserves its snowfield for over 5 months of the year. These give a clue to its most recent past. As the last ice age began to develop nearly 2 million years a...
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Glaciation of an are...
Arran is a complex geological feature where the rocks of a large collapsed volcanic caldera have been intruded by dykes of lava from more recent tertiary volcaoes only 30 million years ago. Many other layesr of rock make uo the lower land of the island, the majority were heavily faulted during this ...
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Glaciation of an are...
The geology and scenery of the island of Aran is among the most complex and breath taking in Scotland. Approximately 60,000,000 years ago when the North Atlantic Ocean was beginning to open up, rising masses of volcanic magma began to push upwards. A chain of former volcanoes run south along a line ...
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