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Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The eastern wall of the Walls Boundary Fault, seen in the middle distance at the end of the Back Sand beach, with folded metamorphic rocks in the cliff on the right.
The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
Folded metamorphic rocks
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Shetland - Northmavine
Folded metamorphic schist rocks to the west of the Walls Boundary Fault, Northmavine, Shetland
20 July 2013
Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The eastern wall of the Walls Boundary Fault. The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The eastern wall of the Walls Boundary Fault, which may look like red granite but has a surface layer of fault gouge, a fine-grained rock ground down from the granite and schist by the fault movement. The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The eastern wall of the Walls Boundary Fault, which may look like red granite but has a face of fault gouge, a fine-grained rock ground down from the granite and schist by the fault movement. The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
The Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The Walls Boundary Fault and Back Sands, Back of Ollaberry, Northmavine, Shetland. The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
Loch Lomond islands from Cashel
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Loch Lomond - East Loch Lomond
The view south-west over some of the Loch Lomond islands, including Inchcailloch, Torrinch, Creinch and Inchmurrin, along the line of the Highland Boundary Fault, taken by David Palmar from the Cashel Native Forest, East Loch Lomond. The nearer long island is Inchfad.
13 November 2021
Loch Lomond panorama pink sun
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Loch Lomond - Scenery
Loch Lomond panorama taken at 8am with pink sun on the snowy mountains, from the Luss hills in the west on the left, to Ben Lomond in the east on the right. In Loch Lomond are the islands which lie along the Highland Boundary Fault, the largest of which is Inchcailloch.
This panorama has a 4 to 1 ratio, and being stitched together from several images is capable of printing to a large size. RSPB Loch Lomond is in the east on the right. The area forms part of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and the Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve.
26 December 2004
Loch Lomond wide panorama
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Loch Lomond - Scenery
Loch Lomond wide panorama taken at 9am and showing from the Luss hills in the west on the left, with the islands along the Highland Boundary Fault, including Inchcailloch, and with Conic Hill and the Endrick Marshes in the east on the right.
This panorama has an 8 to 1 ratio, and being stitched together from 6 images is capable of printing to a large size. RSPB Loch Lomond is in the east on the right. The area forms part of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park and the Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve.
26 December 2004
Loch Lomond spring panorama
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Loch Lomond - Scenery
A panoramic picture of Loch Lomond in spring, showing from left to right along the line of the Highland Boundary Fault, Inchcailloch with the Luss hills above it, in the middle distance the hills around Tarbet and Arrochar, then Conic Hill and Balmaha with snowy Ben Lomond above. The picture was taken from the Shore Wood, RSPB Loch Lomond, part of the Loch Lomond National Nature Reserve. The area forms part of the Loch Lomond and the Trossachs National Park. This panorama has a 3 to 1 ratio, and being stitched together from several images is capable of printing to a large size.
