Friday, 3 January 2020

Is Floutern Cop a crag-and-tail?

Floutern Cop is a small prominence above the glacial corrie filled by Floutern Tarn. It is long and narrow. The western end is craggy but the eastern ends tapers away. It looks like it might be a crag-and-tail feature. https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/guides/zg36wxs/revision/4 This would mean that at some point there was an overlying glacier moving from left to right in this picture. This probably doesn't fit with the idea of a corrie glacier but I did read in the autumn that corrie glaciers were the last phase of glaciation in the district.