Erosion

Introduction

The photograph on this page of Erosion by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.

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Erosion

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 2 Jul 2010

The land here is blanketed with till deposited by glaciers during the last Ice Age. Here the rudimentary path exploits the scar left by a fault which has developed in the poorly consolidated till, exposing bare red earth.

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Image Location

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Latitude
57.366377
Longitude
-1.910211