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After the Ice Age - Glacial breach

One of the last events of Britain's Ice Age was a re-advance of small ice sheets in mountainous areas like Scotland. The ice wasn't thick enough to smother the mountain range so tongues of ice sometimes broke away from the main glacier. Animations are used to explain how U-shaped glacial troughs called breaches were left behind. These routes have proved useful for railways.

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