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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.
In Scotland, the largest effect of the Caledonian Orogeny is the Great Glen Fault, a former transform fault over 300 miles long which now contains Loch Ness. Other Caledonian faults include the Moine Thrust, Highland Boundary Fault and Southern Uplands fault.
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.
The Great Glen Fault: the swinging pendulum of displacement estimates. The striking geomorphological aspect of the Great Glen of Scotland is its ruler-straight NE–SW trend for 200 km defined by a relatively narrow, steep-sided valley with hundreds of metres of relief.
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.
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The geology of the Northern Highlands Terrane, bounded by the Moine Thrust to the North and the Great Glen Fault to the south, is dominated by the Caledonian mid to high-grade meta-sedimentary sequences of the Moine supergroup.
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