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Major, reactivated strike-slip fault
- The Great Glen Fault Zone (GGFZ) is a major, reactivated strike-slip fault within the lower Paleozoic Caledonian orogenic belt of the British Isles.
agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1029/1998TC900033Structure and early kinematic history of the Great Glen Fault ...
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The Great Glen has been recognized as a major fault zone for well over a century, but it was not until the work of William Kennedy in the 1930s (published in 1946) that its significance was recognized. Kennedy showed that the fault had moved sideways – as a so-called strike-slip (or wrench) fault.
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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 Fault is a major geological feature that traverses southwest to northeast across the Scottish mainland 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.
On the Scottish mainland, the Great Glen Fault (Plate P000742) comprises a zone of fracturing and intense cataclasis, 1 to 1.5 km wide, affecting Moine and Dalradian rocks.
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.
Jun 24, 2021 · fault zone deformations. The Great Glen Fault Zone (GGFZ), located within the lower Paleozoic Caledonian orogenic belt of British Isles (Figures la and lb), is often cited as an example of a major strike-slip fault with a long-lived history of reactivation, following Kennedy [1946] and Holgate [1969]. It is
