P number: | P000687 |
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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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