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I've looked at this weird formation, between Kinlochewe and Torridon, for a few years, & wondered;
a) how it formed, &
b) what it could be used for
It's called 'Coire Cheud Cnoc' (corrie of a hundred hillocks)
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Ground would, of course, be far too delicate to withstand bike traffic 🙁
It's on the east side about half-way, next time you're passing.
I think its caused by glacial moraine, its stuff scraped off the ground by glaciers and left behind when it melts. Its pretty common around here, it would be alot of fun if it was made our of smooth dirt rather than boggy heather/bracken.
Glacial action indeed. There's a very similar formation just above Black Sail youth hostel in the lakes.... I spent a while thinking it was spoil heaps, and then found out that it was glacial.
you sure it's not braking bumps from the glaciers slowing down?
It's hummocky moraine and crotchrocket isn't actually a million miles off with their glacial braking bumps idea.
The collective's knowledge is indeed all powerful. Consider me educated! 🙂
in o'level geography its given the nice descriptive name , "basket of eggs topography "
more on it if you are interested.
yeah its where dinosaurauses laid there eggs innit.
drumlins innit?
They're made of clay and rocks. The rocks are aligned in the direction of movement of the glacier.
Similar topography near tyndrum.
Is each pile where a mel****er stream deposited its silt, and as the glacier receded more piles were left? (I didn't take geology at school, more's the pity)