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Great Glen Fault. Coordinates: 57.08°N 4.76°W. Map of the Great Glen Fault and other late Caledonian strike-slip faults in Scotland and northwestern Ireland. The Great Glen Fault is a strike-slip fault that runs through the Great Glen in Scotland. Occasional moderate tremors have been recorded over the past 150 years.
The Great Glen hosts the most prominent fault in the British Isles, the Great Glen Fault. It originated towards the end of the Caledonian Orogeny (around 430-390 million years ago), and cuts diagonally across the Highlands from Fort William to Inverness.
Jan 20, 2024 · The Great Glen Fault is a significant geological feature that covers the Southwest to the Northeast across the Scottish Mainland running from Fort William to Inverness, in an almost straight line.
Aug 12, 2024 · A popular conceptual tectonic model envisages the Great Glen Fault to be part of a sinistral strike-slip system active during the mid-Silurian through early Devonian with c. 700 km of displacement.
Nov 16, 2021 · Loch Ness lies along part of the Great Glen Fault, an area linked to earthquakes in the Highlands
A popular conceptual tectonic model envisages the Great Glen Fault to be part of a sinistral strike-slip system active during the mid-Silurian to early Devonian with c. 700 km of displacement.
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One important effect of the sinistral, post-collision tectonism was strike-slip movement concentrated on major north-east-trending faults, such as the Great Glen Fault and its northwards extension as the Walls Boundary Fault in Shetland.
