Image Bank - Scottish Mountains

These images have been taken over the past three years and cover most of the Southern Highlands, in particular the Trossachs, Strath Fillan, Loch Tay and along Glen Orchy towards Glencoe. There is also a set from Glen Tilt near Blair Atholl. Quite a few of these images could be combined with the French Alps set to offer the opportunity to devise worksheets and interactive exercises on present and past glaciated landscapes.

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Images	Description	Links to exercises created using this image
	Frozen ground above the snowline at Strath Fillan looking south west.	For future development
	Ben More and Stobinean. At almost 1200 metresthey are the highest in the Southern Highlands. Distinctive pyramidal peaks.
	Strath Fillan in weak November afternoon sunlight. The reclaimed, fertile valley floor contrasts with the rough grazing of the valley sides.
	Strath Fillan looking west towards Ben Lui. This transect of a typical glaciated valley shows the corrie on the eastern slope of Ben Lui, steep sided valley and mounds typical of moranines and drumlins on the valley floor.
	Glen Lochay, looking east from the top of Ben Challum. This valley contrasts with the more fertile and lower lying Strath Fillan. This typical U-shaped valley is almost devoid of cultivated land and the mis-fit stream meanders across the wide valley bottom.
	A distant view of Ben Cruachan looking west from Ben Challum, above Strath Fillan.
	Looking north from Ben Challum towards Glencoe. The fact that the Highlands are a dissected plateau is obvious from the almost uniform height of the summits. The broad valley of Glen Orchy lies in the middle distance.
	Another view of the uniform summits of the central Highlands. Notice the wide U-shape in the middle distance known as a saddle where the ice overflowed from one valley into another. These high passes were used by people as alternative, high-level routes between the narrow, steep-sided valleys. Many drove roads followed such gaps in the mountains to reduce the detour.
	Corrie with the hollow water filled to form a lochan known as a tarn in Wlaes. The background is filled with a steep-sided scree filled slope rising to a sharp ridge (arete) and a distinctive, though rounded pyramidal peak. The foregorund is bare rock or rough grazing and the larger bolder may be an erratic or the remants of an earlier rockfall from higher up the slopes. This corrie lies at the southern edge of Rannoch Moor, just north of Bridge of Orchy.
	Looking north from above Glen Tilt towards the southern Cairngorms. The broad Lairig Gru pass occupies the far distance.
	Looking north from above Glen Tilt towards the southern Cairngorms. The screen slopes and the barren landscape below typifies the poor acidic soil landscape of upland Scotland.
	The river Tilt shows a typical upper course stream bed with boulders and shallow, but fast flowing water. A separate collection showing river features holds more views from Glen Tilt, the river Forth and other Scottish rivers.
	A view of the distinctive steep sides of a U-shaped valley. This is Glen Tilt. The steep slopes are covered with heather, tussock grasses and exposed rocks. The valley floor has a mis-fit stream part hidden by private copses of coniferous trees competing with improved grassland - the result of reseeding.
	A sign advising walkers and outdoor activities people to be aware of the deer management programme on the Glen Tilt estate. Stalking deer brings in much needed income in the autumn but the lower slopes of coniferous forest must be protected from grazing deer intent on destroying woods which are grown for profit.

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