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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
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
The view south-east from Dumyat towards Alva
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Stirlingshire - Dumyat
The view south-east from Dumyat, with in the foreground the fault scarp of the Ochil Hills, Alva and Tillicoultry, and the Diageo whisky bond at Blackgrange, and looking towards Knock Hill and Saline Hill in Fife.
14 September 2020
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
Da Sneck o da Smaallie, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Da Sneck o da Smaallie, Foula, a cleft in the cliffs which hides vegetation which is the nearest thing to a forest on Foula.
28 June 2014
Da Sneck o da Smaallie, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Da Sneck o da Smaallie, Foula, a cleft in the cliffs which hides vegetation which is the nearest thing to a forest on Foula.
28 June 2014
Da Sneck o da Smaallie, Foula
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Shetland - Foula
Da Sneck o da Smaallie, Foula, a cleft in the cliffs which hides vegetation which is the nearest thing to a forest on Foula.