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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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- 17 May 2018
Loch Linnhe forms the submerged western end of the Great Glen Fault which divides the highlands in two between Inverness and Fort William. With Lochs Etive, Creran, a'Choire, Leven and Eil...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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- 17 May 2018
Loch Tarbert deeply bisects the south Hebridean island of Jura. It is a relatively small and shallow fiordic loch, some 11 km in length and 43 m at its deepest point. The loch is divided into three...
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- British Geological Survey (BGS)
- Last updated:
- 25 June 2026
Three datasets, ground-penetrating radar, side-scan sonar and sub-bottom profile data (CHIRP), were collected in April and June 2022 from the proximal Skeiðarársandur area (~63.9 N, 17.2 E) and...
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- British Geological Survey (BGS)
- Last updated:
- 25 June 2026
This collection comprises two time-series of 3D in-situ synchrotron x-ray microtomography (μCT) volumes showing two Ailsa Craig micro-granite samples (ACfresh02 and ACHT01) undergoing triaxial...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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- 17 May 2018
The survey area between Berwick and Beadnell lies on the North Sea coast just south of the Scottish border. It includes Holy Island and Budle Bay. The area is essentially rural and attracts a...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
This report is the result of a brief visit to the Isles of Scilly in September 1982 when surveys were made of sediment shores between Tresco and St Martin's and of the shore at Porth Hellick, St...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
The survey area between Berwick and Beadnell lies on the North Sea coast just south of the Scottish border. It includes Holy Island and Budle Bay. The area is essentially rural and attracts a...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
Loch Etive is a typical fjord, carved into grantie and metamorphic rocks by glaciers from the Rannoch Moor area. The steeply walled, deep upper basin is followed by a series of shallower basins and...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
The Uist island chain in the Outer Hebrides is formed of Lewisian gneiss and is generaly low-lying with extensive and complex fresh and brackish water systems and a heavily indented eastern...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
This report is the result of a brief visit to the Isles of Scilly in September 1982 when surveys were made of sediment shores between Tresco and St Martin's and of the shore at Porth Hellick, St...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
Loch Etive is a typical fjord, carved into grantie and metamorphic rocks by glaciers from the Rannoch Moor area. The steeply walled, deep upper basin is followed by a series of shallower basins and...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
The Uist island chain in the Outer Hebrides is formed of Lewisian gneiss and is generaly low-lying with extensive and complex fresh and brackish water systems and a heavily indented eastern...
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- British Geological Survey (BGS)
- Last updated:
- 25 June 2026
PROJECT DETAILS ONLY - NO DATA. The incredible success of living birds (>9000 species) results, in part, from their unique respiratory system, which underpins the key evolutionary innovations of...
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- British Geological Survey (BGS)
- Last updated:
- 25 June 2026
This map layer represents an assessment of the vulnerability of groundwater within the uppermost aquifer. This classification was initially undertaken to support groundwater assessments undertaken...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
Loch Gairloch and Loch Ewe lie on the north-west Scottish mainland in an area of Torridonian sandstone. They were surveyed during 1990 as part of the survey of Scottish sealochs. Although adjacent,...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
Six mainland lochs south of Oban were surveyed during 1989 as part of the survey of Scottish sealochs. Loch Feochan, the most northerly, opens into the Firth of Lorne and is protected from the west...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
The Shetland Islands are Britain's most northerly extremity and have a long, complex coastline with numerous islands, sheltered inlets and tide-swept channels. They lie at the confluence of the...
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- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
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- 17 May 2018
Six mainland lochs south of Oban were surveyed during 1989 as part of the survey of Scottish sealochs. Loch Feochan, the most northerly, opens into the Firth of Lorne and is protected from the west...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
Loch Gairloch and Loch Ewe lie on the north-west Scottish mainland in an area of Torridonian sandstone. They were surveyed during 1990 as part of the survey of Scottish sealochs. Although adjacent,...
- Published by:
- Joint Nature Conservation Committee
- Last updated:
- 17 May 2018
Flamborough Headland is a Heritage Coast and SSSI, noted not only for its dramatic scenery and geological formations, but also for the colonies of seabirds that breed on the cliffs. It is the most...
