| Site Type: | Inland exposure | | Site Status: | TBC | | Council area: | Causeway Coast & Glens Borough Council | | Grid Reference: | C678069,C668068 | | Bing maps: | 54.9056,-6.943 | | Google maps: | 54.9056,-6.943 | | Rocks |
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| Rock Age: | Quaternary | | Rock Type: | Gravel, Sand | | Interest |
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| Other interest: | Glacio-fluvial sediment, deltaic foresets |
| Summary of site: |
| On either side of the Owenrigh River where it emerges from its confined valley below Mount Prospect, there is a substantial sediment body almost 60m thick. The sands and sandy gravel beds have internal inclines (foresets) of around 18º, sloping to the north east. They were originally a single mass, now divided into two fragments by a meltwater channel and the modern river. A ridge 500m long extends north-west/south-east from Banagher Church into these deposits. | | When the last ice sheets were retreating, ice tunnels fed sediments in torrents of fast-flowing meltwater into a lake here, confined behind an ice dam. The lake surface was about 122m above modern sea level. |
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