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Posted: 28 Dec 2017


Taken: 17 May 2013

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Looks like Himalaya

Looks like Himalaya
The Highlands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. This part of Scotland is largely composed of ancient rocks from the Cambrian and Precambrian periods which were uplifted during the later Caledonian Orogeny. Smaller formations of Lewisian gneiss in the northwest are up to 3 billion years old. The overlying rocks of the Torridon Sandstone form mountains in the Torridon Hills such as Liathach and Beinn Eighe in Wester Ross.

These foundations are interspersed with many igneous intrusions of a more recent age, the remnants of which have formed mountain massifs such as the Cairngorms and the Cuillin of Skye. A significant exception to the above are the fossil-bearing beds of Old Red Sandstone found principally along the Moray Firth coast and partially down the Highland Boundary Fault. The Jurassic beds found in isolated locations on Skye and Applecross reflect the complex underlying geology. They are the original source of much North Sea oil. The Great Glen is formed along a transform fault which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands.

The entire region was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages, save perhaps for a few nunataks. The complex geomorphology includes incised valleys and lochs carved by the action of mountain streams and ice, and a topography of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have similar heights above sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places.

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 Christel Ehretsmann
Christel Ehretsmann club
I like this threatening sky...
6 years ago.
m̌ ḫ club has replied to Christel Ehretsmann club
threatens with everpresent Scottish rain, LOL
6 years ago.
 Martine
Martine
Une vue magnifique.
6 years ago.
m̌ ḫ club has replied to Martine
Have you been walking the West Highland Way?
6 years ago.
 Herb Riddle
Herb Riddle club
Thanks for sharing with our UK Landscape Photography Group , Herb
2 years ago.

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