Visiting European Countries

Did you see the Falkirk Wheel?

I took Mrs Ash up to Aberdeen with the baby, in 2013. So I don’t think the Kelpies had been constructed then. We intended to visit the Wheel but couldn’t manage it time wise. We just used Falkirk as a base on our journey north. It had been snowing quite heavily and Mrs Ash hadn’t at that point seen snow before.

Are the as big as they look in photos?

Yes absolutely see inspiring.

Loch Morlich

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https://www.scottishgeology.com/wp-content/uploads/lfbg/LandscapeFashionedbyGeology-cairngorms.pdf

The term “sand” refers to the size of the grain and not what it is made from or it’s shape. However the shape and what it is made from would indicate its source. A quick check under a hand lens helps. The sand could have come from a number of sources but the docunent above suggests it has a glacial origin (stuff left behind after the glacier has melted). It could also have been sourced by river from local Devonian Sandstone that has been eroded. It could of course have been dumped there to attract the tourists but seemingly that hasn’t been the case.



I don’t know the area. I did notice the sand and thought how nice.

We were up at Bolton Abbey the other week and the river bank there comprised of pebbles and fine sand. The kids played on it just like at the coast. Both will have been deposited there by river owing to a reduction in river energy at that point.

Basically the same for beaches on the coast and river banks. The size of the grains/boulders that are deposited is a reflection of the energy in the waters carrying the load.

That lot in the picture looks like “terminal morraine” unloaded by a glacier.

My ex wife and I visited Loch Rannoch. I recall it vividly as she was continuously be attacked by midges.

Well yes. Depends how fast the waters are moving. Also the differences in deposit size can be separated by elapsed time so not necessarily simultaneously deposited. You see the same thing on the coast. You also see the same thing in rocks found at depth or those rocks brought to the surface at some point.

With rivers for example, the waters move faster on the outside of the bend. So finer stuff is deposited on the inside of the bend where waters are slowest. This gives rise to “graded“ deposits.

It is quite fascinating as it is amazing what they can tell remotely what the story is on Mars, just by photos. They don’t tell you everything but they tell quite a lot if they are detailed.

It's made up of granite and also contains a high degree of broken glass, dating to the 2nd world war when the Norwegians used the area as a training camp for their commandos under the watchful eye of the British, as the terrain is strikingly similar to parts of Norway.
Look up kompine (kompani) linge

Makes sense.

I read about the glass. What form does it take? Can you walk on it - is it finely ground or like broken glass?

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