Eroding glacial deposits, Afon Ogwen
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Eroding glacial deposits, Afon Ogwen
Image: © Jonathan Wilkins Taken: 25 Mar 2017
At this point the Afon Ogwen has been engineered to make a slight drop, but it is not obvious whether that is the cause of the erosion of the thick glacial deposits which make a cliff here. I suspect that the cliff is actually a section across a drumlin running parallel to the Menai Strait which constrained the flow of ice during the last glacial maximum. A fantastic scene, with a dead tree obviously stranded during a flood in recent years. It is not obvious from the image that there are houses at the top of the bank.
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Image Location
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53.210613
Longitude
-4.094264