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Glendoe hydro-electric scheme above Fort Augustus. The actual reservoir and dam are not unduly intrusive, but the extensive network of heavy-duty access roads to service all the weirs diverting water into the catchment have altered its remoteness and wildness. These roads have also facilitated a very large wind energy project, one of several encouraged by proximity to the high-capacity Beauly-Denny power transmission line over Corrieyairack Pass, and which now dominate the NW Grampian skyline in views from the Cairngorms and Western Highlands up to 50 miles (80 kilometres) away.
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The interior of the Monadh Liath is remote and desolate, with little remaining native tree cover. This is a result of human activity, deforestation and overgrazing by sheep and deer over the last thousand years, in common with much of the
Scottish Highlands. The renewable energy gold rush has already
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Although icesheets have repeatedly covered the Monadh Liath, they have done little to change its character: there are no corries away from the Munros fringe, and only a few short glaciated troughs, notably Glen Killin on the north. It has just become recognised that thin ice on the plateau is frozen
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The Monadh Liath differs greatly in character from the greater
Highland mountains to the south and west, as an elevated moorland with no proper ridges. The four Munros are all on the Spey rim, three making a classic circuit from Newtonmore; the interior is rarely visited. The main valley within the
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The landscape of the Monadh Liath is one of the most ancient in
Britain, its essentials as a secondary massif flanking the Cairngorms having evolved continuously since the Caledonian Mountains were created over 400 million years ago. Thus the land surface still slopes gently northwest towards the
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to the ground, but as it starts to flow into the troughs it thickens, accelerates, and warms up so it can erode and enlarge them. This has occurred as recently as the last (Younger Dryas) glacial period ~12000 years ago.
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Monadhliath' (2013). In Boston CM, Lukas S and Merritt JW (eds) The Quaternary of the Monadhliath and the Great Glen - Field Guide. Quaternary Research Association, London,
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Monadhliath, Scotland, and implications for regional palaeoclimate. Quaternary Science Reviews 108, 139-162
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