crag and tail

Crag and tail features occur throughout, but are especially frequent north of Harris.

First, the old walled city on the crag and tail was built upwards.

Such landforms are called crag and tail.

It is a crag and tail with a prominent tail extending eastwards.

Examples of such crag and tail formations include:

The characteristic crag and tail shape of the crag reflects this glacial shaping.

Craig, or crag, describes a post-glacial Crag and tail landscape feature.

Turning around, one can see through the crag and tails of the isthmus to the eastern Island of Fugloy.

What differences in street plans and buildings are there between the old city on the crag and tail and the area which was new in 1800?

Crag and tail, a similar formation, with a more resilient core (generally composed of igneous or metamorphic rock)

Subsequent glacial erosion was resisted by the dolerite, which protected the softer rock to the east, leaving a crag and tail formation.

Actions by subsequent ice movements further eroded the hill and deposited more debris around the base creating a crag and tail.

Both prominences may represent the remains of "crag and tail" structures from the Wurm glacial episode 10,000 years ago, the Escrick moraine lying further north at York.

This "crag and tail" landform was created during the last ice age when receding glaciers scoured across the land pushing soft soil aside but being split by harder crags of volcanic rock.

Retreating ice sheets, many millennia ago, deposited their glacial debris behind the hard volcanic plug of the castle rock on which Edinburgh Castle stands, resulting in a distinctive crag and tail formation.

Edinburgh, grimly warded, lay inside her walls, bedevilled by the shadows of her hills, her crag and tail a black and fishy emblem above the apologetic stench of the Nor' Loch.

One such example is Castle Rock which forced the advancing icepack to divide, sheltering the softer rock and forming a mile-long tail of material to the east, creating a distinctive crag and tail formation.

Castle Hill, on which Stirling Castle is built, forms part of the Stirling Sill, a formation of quartz-dolerite around 350 million years old, which was subsequently modified by glaciation to form a "crag and tail".

The Ochils meet the flat carse (floodplain) of the River Forth to the east of the distinctive geographical feature of Abbey Craig, a crag and tail hill upon which stands the 220 ft (67m) high Wallace National Monument.

Studies of the landscape beneath the waters of the firth have revealed that the visible surface of Inchgarvie is only the top of a larger crag and tail structure similar in structure to Edinburgh Castle and the Royal Mile created by glacial action.