| P number: | P000742 |
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| Old photograph number: | D02128 |
| Caption: | Obique aerial view looking north-east along the Great Glen from Banavie shows a linear fault-determined glen with glacial basins of Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and Loch Ness and U-shaped glacially scoured valley along the fault line. |
| Description: | Obique aerial view looking north-east along the Great Glen from Banavie shows a linear fault-determined glen with glacial basins of Loch Lochy, Loch Oich and Loch Ness and U-shaped glacially scoured valley along the fault line. The Great Glen Fault Zone is one of the two most important fractures in Scotland (the other is the Highland Boundary Fault). It is a major transcurrent fault with a sinistral displacement of about 100 km. Note also the highly developed meandering river system with prominent gravel bars in the foreground. The fault has had a long and debated history, though the consensus is that the main phase of sinistral transcurrence movement occurred at the end of the Caledonian Orogeny (Silurian) with reactivation, mainly as a normal fault, during and after the deposition of the Old Red Sandstone. |
| 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: | 211600 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 777500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 255.38 KB; 981 x 1000 pixels; 83 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 260 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Structural features/ Fault breccia |
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