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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
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
Red granite periglacial terraces, Ronas Hill
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Shetland - Northmavine
The red granite of Ronas Hill, Northmavine, Shetland, showing periglacial solifluction terraces and low growing dwarf Arctic Alpine plants.
20 July 2013
Red granite landscape, Ronas Hill
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Shetland - Northmavine
The red granite of Ronas Hill, Northmavine, Shetland
20 July 2013
Red granite landscape, Ronas Hill
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Shetland - Northmavine
The red granite of Ronas Hill, Northmavine, Shetland
20 July 2013
Beinn Dearg Mhòr, Beinn Dearg Bheag and Loch Slapin, Skye
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Skye - Red Cuillin
The Red Cuillin mountains of Beinn Dearg Mhòr, Beinn Dearg Bheag and Loch Slapin, Skye
02 July 2011
Beinn Dearg Bheag and Beinn na Caillich, Skye
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Skye - Red Cuillin
The Red Cuillin mountains of Beinn Dearg Bheag and Beinn na Caillich from Loch Cill Chriosd, Skye
02 July 2011
Red Deer stags in the snow
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Red Deer at the Pass of Drumochter
Three red deer (Cervus elaphus) walking through the snow at the Pass of Drumochter in winter - available as a poster-sized image.
