Burn of Gask

Introduction

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

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Burn of Gask

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 9 Apr 2015

The burn is clearly too small to have created this wide valley, which is in fact a meltwater channel carved by the melt from a glacier at the end of the last Ice Age some 10,000 years ago.

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Image Location

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Latitude
57.513079
Longitude
-2.480031