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The carse typically offers good agricultural land, however underlying the topsoil and alluvium is glacial boulder clay. In other places, especially in the west, the carse was overlain by
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to the north and the castle rock, on which the town is based, to the south, it is very narrow.
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is situated, it has only reached a height of about 9 metres above sea level at the
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Carse Grey estate near Forfar, plus nearby Carseburn and Carsebank (Angus)
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Carse of Gowrie
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