View ENE across the Llanrug-Llanllyfni Platform
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View ENE across the Llanrug-Llanllyfni Platform
Image: © Eric Jones Taken: 21 Oct 1997
This is an uplifted marine-eroded platform on which much glacial debris was deposited during the Quaternary Ice Age to form drumlins. On its landward side are low rocky hills of Pre-Cambrian rocks against which the mountains of Snowdonia (in the background) were buckled by orogenic processes.
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Image Location
Latitude
53.143101
Longitude
-4.193703