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Journal Article
Published: 27 March 2015
Scottish Journal of Geology (2015) 51 (1): 69–80.
... on previously undisturbed vegetated talus; investigate debris flow gully propagation on non-vegetated talus. Glen Docherty, Wester Ross, lies on the southern extension of the Loch Maree tear fault, in close proximity to the Moine Thrust. It forms a natural defile through which the A832 Gairloch...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 November 2009
Scottish Journal of Geology (2009) 45 (2): 177–181.
... accumulated as a steep-fronted ridge with a gentle backing depression, partly burying a lateral moraine attributed to the Wester Ross Readvance (WRR) of c . 14.0–13.5 ka. Cosmogenic 10 Be exposure ages for large boulders on the rockslide runout debris indicate that the rockslide occurred between 14.0 ± 1.6 ka...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 May 2002
Scottish Journal of Geology (2002) 38 (1): 5–13.
...Peter Wilson Synopsis Radiocarbon dates from peats within and below coastal dune sands at Opinan and Redpoint, Wester Ross, Scotland, provide age constraints on phases of peat accumulation, dune development, and podzolic soil formation. Although the two dune systems are only 4 km apart they do...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 January 1964
Geological Magazine (1964) 101 (1): 37–39.
Journal Article
Published: 01 November 1960
Geological Magazine (1960) 97 (6): 504–508.
Journal Article
Published: 01 July 1956
Geological Magazine (1956) 93 (4): 345–350.
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Stratigraphic correlation chart of the Torridon–Morar groups – <span class="search-highlight">Wester</span> <span class="search-highlight">Ross</span> ...
Published: 06 October 2021
Fig. 5. Stratigraphic correlation chart of the Torridon–Morar groups – Wester Ross Supergroup. References to columns: Tarskavaig : Cheeney and Matthews (1965) ; Iona : Stewart (2002) ; McAteer et al. (2014) ; Rum : Stewart (2002) ; Sleat : Stewart (1969 , 2002) . Assynt
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Rock surface completely covered with multiple lichen species in <span class="search-highlight">Wester</span> <span class="search-highlight">Ross</span>...
Published: 01 June 2017
Figure 1 Rock surface completely covered with multiple lichen species in Wester Ross (Scotland). Scale bar ~3 cm. Image by G.M. Gadd.
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Distal slope of the boulder ridge. On the right the <span class="search-highlight">Wester</span> <span class="search-highlight">Ross</span> Readvance l...
Published: 01 November 2009
Fig. 2. Distal slope of the boulder ridge. On the right the Wester Ross Readvance lateral moraine emerges from under the boulder accumulation. Behind the boulder ridge the failure scar on the NW flank of Baosbheinn is flanked by upward-converging rock buttresses.
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Minimum and maximum ages for the Baosbheinn RSF and the <span class="search-highlight">Wester</span> <span class="search-highlight">Ross</span> Readvan...
Published: 01 November 2009
Fig. 4. Minimum and maximum ages for the Baosbheinn RSF and the Wester Ross Readvance moraines ( Ballantyne et al. 2009a ) plotted against the NGRIP oxygen isotope ratio (δ 18 O) curve for 16-10 ka, and showing the Greenland stadial and interstadial subdivisions proposed by Lowe et al
Journal Article
Published: 06 October 2021
Journal of the Geological Society (2022) 179 (2): jgs2021-054.
...Fig. 5. Stratigraphic correlation chart of the Torridon–Morar groups – Wester Ross Supergroup. References to columns: Tarskavaig : Cheeney and Matthews (1965) ; Iona : Stewart (2002) ; McAteer et al. (2014) ; Rum : Stewart (2002) ; Sleat : Stewart (1969 , 2002) . Assynt...
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Journal Article
Published: 17 July 2019
Scottish Journal of Geology (2019) 55 (2): 155–165.
...–500 m above present-day sea-level. The Wester Ross Re-advance of 15–14 ka left a fragment of lateral moraine against the most easterly flute and buried the distal end of the flutes with hummocky moraine. We hypothesize that the fluted deposits reflect the locations of the ice-stream margins...
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Journal Article
Published: 01 December 1974
Journal of the Geological Society (1974) 130 (6): 590–593.
... or four heretical workers in the Highlands; but most geologists in those days followed Peach and Bailey in confining the deformation and metamorphism of these rocks to the post Cambrian, Caledonian diastrophism. This was particularly so in Inverness-shire and Wester Ross, where the trends of the Moinian...
Journal Article
Published: 01 November 1953
Geological Magazine (1953) 90 (6): 377–387.
...Gilbert Wilson; Janet Watson; John Sutton Abstract "This note records a number of observations of orientation of current-bedding in the Moine series of Inverness-shire, Wester Ross and Sutherland, in the north-western Highlands of Scotland. The foreset beds have been found to have a dominant dip...
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Location and map of the Baosbheinn boulder ridge, showing the distribution ...
Published: 01 November 2009
Fig. 1. Location and map of the Baosbheinn boulder ridge, showing the distribution of boulders and burial of the Wester Ross Readvance lateral moraine under the boulder ridge.
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Deformation bands, Applecross sandstone, Bealach na Bà, Applecross Peninsul...
Published: 01 May 2012
Fig. 8. Deformation bands, Applecross sandstone, Bealach na Bà, Applecross Peninsula, Wester Ross. [NG770424], view SE. Arrow marks one band.
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Location of the Opinan and Redpoint dune systems, South Erradale, <span class="search-highlight">Wester</span> Ro...
Published: 01 May 2002
Fig. 1. Location of the Opinan and Redpoint dune systems, South Erradale, Wester Ross, Scotland. National Grid co-ordinates (Grid letters NG) are given at 1 km intervals along the southern and western margins.
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Revised stratigraphic framework for the Neoproterozoic successions of the S...
Published: 06 October 2021
divisions are erected to retain geological compatibility across the Highlands and North Atlantic: Wester Ross and Loch Ness supergroups.
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Generalized geology of the western Highlands of Scotland and Inner Hebrides...
Published: 13 September 2024
Fig. 4. Generalized geology of the western Highlands of Scotland and Inner Hebrides. Simplified stratigraphic framework is given in the inset; it should be noted that the individual units of the Wester Ross and Loch Ness Supergroup that were sampled are denoted on the map; those two supergroups
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Map showing outcrop of Applecross Formation (Torridon Group) in relation to...
Published: 01 May 2012
Fig. 1. Map showing outcrop of Applecross Formation (Torridon Group) in relation to surrounding units, western Scotland. (After Peach et al . 1907 ; Stewart 1969 ; Stewart & Goodenough 2009 .) Box: location of study, east of An Teallach [NH110 850], Wester Ross. MTB, Moine Thrust Belt