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P number: P000687
Old photograph number: D01842
Caption: Looking west-south-west across Great Glen Fault Zone from the road, 9 km. due east of Fort Augustus. Inverness-shire. The fault is not a single fault plane but a zone, up to 1.5 km. wide bounded by the Great Glen and Glen Buck Faults.
Description: Looking west-south-west across Great Glen Fault Zone from the road, 9 km. due east of Fort Augustus. Inverness-shire. The fault is not a single fault plane but a zone, up to 1.5 km. wide bounded by the Great Glen and Glen Buck Faults. The Great Glen Fault lies in low ground in the middle of the picture. Low ridge behind is granite-gneiss. The hill in left middle distance is Old Red Sandstone conglomerate. Hills in far distance are Moine. Rocks in foreground are probably Dalradian. The fault, a transcurrent structure formed during the later stages of the Caledonian Orogeny was reactivated during the Devonian and later periods. The net displacement is sinistral and may exceed 100 km.
Date taken: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1976
Photographer: Christie, A.
Copyright statement: NERC
Acknowledgment: This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
X longitude/easting: 239700
Y latitude/northing: 809000
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Portrait
Size: 271.88 KB; 998 x 1000 pixels; 84 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 264 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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