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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Introduction ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Introduction ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boundaries of the region described in this Regional Guide are set by well-defined natural features. On the north the limit is the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from the Moray Firth to the Firth of Lorn and whose floor never rises more than 40 m above OD. On the south the margin is the Highland Border, a line running from Stonehaven in the north-east to Arran and the lower estuary of the Clyde in the south-west, along which the relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged and elevated hills of the Scottish Highlands. Both these major topographical features follow, or largely follow, lines of faults of major structural importance—the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault respectively. The area is thus clearly determined geologically as well as topographically [[Media:P915409.png|(P915409)]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boundaries of the region described in this Regional Guide are set by well-defined natural features. On the north the limit is the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from the Moray Firth to the Firth of Lorn and whose floor never rises more than 40 m above OD. On the south the margin is the Highland Border, a line running from Stonehaven in the north-east to Arran and the lower estuary of the Clyde in the south-west, along which the relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged and elevated hills of the Scottish Highlands. Both these major topographical features follow, or largely follow, lines of faults of major structural importance—the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault respectively. The area is thus clearly determined geologically as well as topographically [[Media:P915409.png|(P915409)]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature, [[Media:P000742.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">png</del>|P000742]], best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature, [[Media:P000742.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">jpg</ins>|P000742]], best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In early days the ‘high land’ was known as ‘the Mounth’ (Gaelic— Monadh) and this name was in use (at least for certain parts) as late as the cattle-droving times of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1526 Hector Boece, the Scottish historian, identified the Mounth with the Mons Graupius (or Grampius) in whose south-eastern foothills an important battle was fought in AD 86 at the time of a Roman foray into what is now Scotland. In Blaeu’s ‘Atlas’ (1662) a reference is made to ‘Grampios Montes’, showing that the name was understood in at least some quarters by that time, but just when the term ‘Grampians’ came into general use is not clear. The areas covered by the geographical terms used in this account are shown on [[Media:P915410.png|P915410]]. They are largely based on the old Scottish ‘Lordships’ and are still in fairly common use, if not too clearly defined. Many have been used in geological descriptions of the Grampian Highlands and are familiar to most geologists.[[File:P915410.png|thumbnail|P915410]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In early days the ‘high land’ was known as ‘the Mounth’ (Gaelic— Monadh) and this name was in use (at least for certain parts) as late as the cattle-droving times of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1526 Hector Boece, the Scottish historian, identified the Mounth with the Mons Graupius (or Grampius) in whose south-eastern foothills an important battle was fought in AD 86 at the time of a Roman foray into what is now Scotland. In Blaeu’s ‘Atlas’ (1662) a reference is made to ‘Grampios Montes’, showing that the name was understood in at least some quarters by that time, but just when the term ‘Grampians’ came into general use is not clear. The areas covered by the geographical terms used in this account are shown on [[Media:P915410.png|P915410]]. They are largely based on the old Scottish ‘Lordships’ and are still in fairly common use, if not too clearly defined. Many have been used in geological descriptions of the Grampian Highlands and are familiar to most geologists.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature, [[Media:P000742.png|P000742]], best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature, [[Media:P000742.png|P000742]], best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Two contrasted types of mountain scenery are presented by the Grampian Highlands. In the Cairngorm area and around Glen Clova great relics of the original planar surface remain as broad, level moorlands cut into by deep glens and scarred by gigantic corrie-cliffs. Towards the south-west this type of mountain scenery passes into a more highly dissected type with rugged pinnacles, crests and ridges. The detail of this latter scenery depends upon the geological character and structure of the rocks. Resistant beds, such as quartzites, grits or massive gneisses, rise into linear ridges and summits. If no marked guiding planes are present, conical forms result, as in the quartzite mountains of Schiehallion, Beinn a’Ghlo and Paps of Jura. Between these resistant quartzites, grits and gneisses, belts of weaker strata such as slates, limestones and phyllites have been excavated into valleys. The tors, scree-slopes and bold corries of the Cairngorms and Lochnagar exemplify the mode of denudation of the granites which form these mountain groups. The bold cliff scenery of Glen Coe, Ben Nevis and adjacent regions is carved out of volcanic rocks or larger granitic masses.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Two contrasted types of mountain scenery are presented by the Grampian Highlands. In the Cairngorm area and around Glen Clova great relics of the original planar surface remain as broad, level moorlands cut into by deep glens and scarred by gigantic corrie-cliffs. Towards the south-west this type of mountain scenery passes into a more highly dissected type with rugged pinnacles, crests and ridges. The detail of this latter scenery depends upon the geological character and structure of the rocks. Resistant beds, such as quartzites, grits or massive gneisses, rise into linear ridges and summits. If no marked guiding planes are present, conical forms result, as in the quartzite mountains of Schiehallion, Beinn a’Ghlo and Paps of Jura. Between these resistant quartzites, grits and gneisses, belts of weaker strata such as slates, limestones and phyllites have been excavated into valleys. The tors, scree-slopes and bold corries of the Cairngorms and Lochnagar exemplify the mode of denudation of the granites which form these mountain groups. The bold cliff scenery of Glen Coe, Ben Nevis and adjacent regions is carved out of volcanic rocks or larger granitic masses.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boundaries of the region described in this Regional Guide are set by well-defined natural features. On the north the limit is the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from the Moray Firth to the Firth of Lorn and whose floor never rises more than 40 m above OD. On the south the margin is the Highland Border, a line running from Stonehaven in the north-east to Arran and the lower estuary of the Clyde in the south-west, along which the relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged and elevated hills of the Scottish Highlands. Both these major topographical features follow, or largely follow, lines of faults of major structural importance—the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault respectively. The area is thus clearly determined geologically as well as topographically [[Media:P915409.png|(P915409)]].</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boundaries of the region described in this Regional Guide are set by well-defined natural features. On the north the limit is the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from the Moray Firth to the Firth of Lorn and whose floor never rises more than 40 m above OD. On the south the margin is the Highland Border, a line running from Stonehaven in the north-east to Arran and the lower estuary of the Clyde in the south-west, along which the relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged and elevated hills of the Scottish Highlands. Both these major topographical features follow, or largely follow, lines of faults of major structural importance—the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault respectively. The area is thus clearly determined geologically as well as topographically [[Media:P915409.png|(P915409)]].</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In early days the ‘high land’ was known as ‘the Mounth’ (Gaelic— Monadh) and this name was in use (at least for certain parts) as late as the cattle-droving times of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1526 Hector Boece, the Scottish historian, identified the Mounth with the Mons Graupius (or Grampius) in whose south-eastern foothills an important battle was fought in AD 86 at the time of a Roman foray into what is now Scotland. In Blaeu’s ‘Atlas’ (1662) a reference is made to ‘Grampios Montes’, showing that the name was understood in at least some quarters by that time, but just when the term ‘Grampians’ came into general use is not clear. The areas covered by the geographical terms used in this account are shown on P915410. They are largely based on the old Scottish ‘Lordships’ and are still in fairly common use, if not too clearly defined. Many have been used in geological descriptions of the Grampian Highlands and are familiar to most geologists.[[File:P915410.png|thumbnail|P915410]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In early days the ‘high land’ was known as ‘the Mounth’ (Gaelic— Monadh) and this name was in use (at least for certain parts) as late as the cattle-droving times of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1526 Hector Boece, the Scottish historian, identified the Mounth with the Mons Graupius (or Grampius) in whose south-eastern foothills an important battle was fought in AD 86 at the time of a Roman foray into what is now Scotland. In Blaeu’s ‘Atlas’ (1662) a reference is made to ‘Grampios Montes’, showing that the name was understood in at least some quarters by that time, but just when the term ‘Grampians’ came into general use is not clear. The areas covered by the geographical terms used in this account are shown on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Media:</ins>P915410<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.png|P915410]]</ins>. They are largely based on the old Scottish ‘Lordships’ and are still in fairly common use, if not too clearly defined. Many have been used in geological descriptions of the Grampian Highlands and are familiar to most geologists.[[File:P915410.png|thumbnail|P915410]]</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Physical features ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Physical features ==</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the region described in this guide is by no means all mountainous (P915409) it contains the highest land in the British Isles. Ben Nevis reaches 1344 m (4406 ft) above OD, with three attendant summits exceeding 1220 m (4000 ft), while in the Cairngorms massif four mountains reach or exceed 1200 m above OD with a considerable area of hill-top over 1050 m (c.3500 ft). Of the 276 separate mountains recognised by hill-walkers as ‘Munros’(mountains exceeding 3000 ft (914.5 m) above OD), 164 are found in the Grampian Highlands.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Although the region described in this guide is by no means all mountainous <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Media:P915409.png|</ins>(P915409)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]] </ins>it contains the highest land in the British Isles. Ben Nevis reaches 1344 m (4406 ft) above OD, with three attendant summits exceeding 1220 m (4000 ft), while in the Cairngorms massif four mountains reach or exceed 1200 m above OD with a considerable area of hill-top over 1050 m (c.3500 ft). Of the 276 separate mountains recognised by hill-walkers as ‘Munros’(mountains exceeding 3000 ft (914.5 m) above OD), 164 are found in the Grampian Highlands.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Viewed from a distance, or from the top of any commanding height within them, the Grampians show a general tendency for ridges and mountain tops to reach up to a more or less uniform level. The impression given by the skyline is one of a plateau-like surface showing very little variation in overall elevation. The Grampians appear to have been carved by the agents of denudation from a single elevated planar surface.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Viewed from a distance, or from the top of any commanding height within them, the Grampians show a general tendency for ridges and mountain tops to reach up to a more or less uniform level. The impression given by the skyline is one of a plateau-like surface showing very little variation in overall elevation. The Grampians appear to have been carved by the agents of denudation from a single elevated planar surface.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The two major boundaries of the Grampian Highlands—the Great Glen and the Highland Border—are both spectacular scenic features. Differential erosion between the softer rocks of the Midland Valley and the more resistant metamorphic rocks of the Highlands on opposite sides of the Highland Boundary Fault has resulted in an abrupt fault-line scarp which can be traced from Stonehaven in the north-east to Loch Lomond in the south-west. The feature is especially obvious when viewed across the low-lying ground between Stirling and Loch Lomond; it is the ‘Highland Line’ of history.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The two major boundaries of the Grampian Highlands—the Great Glen and the Highland Border—are both spectacular scenic features. Differential erosion between the softer rocks of the Midland Valley and the more resistant metamorphic rocks of the Highlands on opposite sides of the Highland Boundary Fault has resulted in an abrupt fault-line scarp which can be traced from Stonehaven in the north-east to Loch Lomond in the south-west. The feature is especially obvious when viewed across the low-lying ground between Stirling and Loch Lomond; it is the ‘Highland Line’ of history.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature, P000742, best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Media:</ins>P000742<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.png|P000742]]</ins>, best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boundaries of the region described in this Regional Guide are set by well-defined natural features. On the north the limit is the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from the Moray Firth to the Firth of Lorn and whose floor never rises more than 40 m above OD. On the south the margin is the Highland Border, a line running from Stonehaven in the north-east to Arran and the lower estuary of the Clyde in the south-west, along which the relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged and elevated hills of the Scottish Highlands. Both these major topographical features follow, or largely follow, lines of faults of major structural importance—the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault respectively. The area is thus clearly determined geologically as well as topographically (P915409).[[File:P915409.png|thumbnail|P915409]]</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boundaries of the region described in this Regional Guide are set by well-defined natural features. On the north the limit is the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from the Moray Firth to the Firth of Lorn and whose floor never rises more than 40 m above OD. On the south the margin is the Highland Border, a line running from Stonehaven in the north-east to Arran and the lower estuary of the Clyde in the south-west, along which the relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged and elevated hills of the Scottish Highlands. Both these major topographical features follow, or largely follow, lines of faults of major structural importance—the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault respectively. The area is thus clearly determined geologically as well as topographically <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Media:P915409.png|</ins>(P915409)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">]]</ins>.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td></tr>
</table>Scotfothttp://earthwise.bgs.ac.uk/index.php?title=Introduction_to_the_Grampian_Highlands&diff=17058&oldid=prevScotfot: /* Scenery */2015-07-10T21:10:15Z<p><span dir="auto"><span class="autocomment">Scenery</span></span></p>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The two major boundaries of the Grampian Highlands—the Great Glen and the Highland Border—are both spectacular scenic features. Differential erosion between the softer rocks of the Midland Valley and the more resistant metamorphic rocks of the Highlands on opposite sides of the Highland Boundary Fault has resulted in an abrupt fault-line scarp which can be traced from Stonehaven in the north-east to Loch Lomond in the south-west. The feature is especially obvious when viewed across the low-lying ground between Stirling and Loch Lomond; it is the ‘Highland Line’ of history.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The two major boundaries of the Grampian Highlands—the Great Glen and the Highland Border—are both spectacular scenic features. Differential erosion between the softer rocks of the Midland Valley and the more resistant metamorphic rocks of the Highlands on opposite sides of the Highland Boundary Fault has resulted in an abrupt fault-line scarp which can be traced from Stonehaven in the north-east to Loch Lomond in the south-west. The feature is especially obvious when viewed across the low-lying ground between Stirling and Loch Lomond; it is the ‘Highland Line’ of history.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">([[</del>P000742<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.jpg]])</del>, best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </ins>P000742, best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Two contrasted types of mountain scenery are presented by the Grampian Highlands. In the Cairngorm area and around Glen Clova great relics of the original planar surface remain as broad, level moorlands cut into by deep glens and scarred by gigantic corrie-cliffs. Towards the south-west this type of mountain scenery passes into a more highly dissected type with rugged pinnacles, crests and ridges. The detail of this latter scenery depends upon the geological character and structure of the rocks. Resistant beds, such as quartzites, grits or massive gneisses, rise into linear ridges and summits. If no marked guiding planes are present, conical forms result, as in the quartzite mountains of Schiehallion, Beinn a’Ghlo and Paps of Jura. Between these resistant quartzites, grits and gneisses, belts of weaker strata such as slates, limestones and phyllites have been excavated into valleys. The tors, scree-slopes and bold corries of the Cairngorms and Lochnagar exemplify the mode of denudation of the granites which form these mountain groups. The bold cliff scenery of Glen Coe, Ben Nevis and adjacent regions is carved out of volcanic rocks or larger granitic masses.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Two contrasted types of mountain scenery are presented by the Grampian Highlands. In the Cairngorm area and around Glen Clova great relics of the original planar surface remain as broad, level moorlands cut into by deep glens and scarred by gigantic corrie-cliffs. Towards the south-west this type of mountain scenery passes into a more highly dissected type with rugged pinnacles, crests and ridges. The detail of this latter scenery depends upon the geological character and structure of the rocks. Resistant beds, such as quartzites, grits or massive gneisses, rise into linear ridges and summits. If no marked guiding planes are present, conical forms result, as in the quartzite mountains of Schiehallion, Beinn a’Ghlo and Paps of Jura. Between these resistant quartzites, grits and gneisses, belts of weaker strata such as slates, limestones and phyllites have been excavated into valleys. The tors, scree-slopes and bold corries of the Cairngorms and Lochnagar exemplify the mode of denudation of the granites which form these mountain groups. The bold cliff scenery of Glen Coe, Ben Nevis and adjacent regions is carved out of volcanic rocks or larger granitic masses.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In early days the ‘high land’ was known as ‘the Mounth’ (Gaelic— Monadh) and this name was in use (at least for certain parts) as late as the cattle-droving times of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1526 Hector Boece, the Scottish historian, identified the Mounth with the Mons Graupius (or Grampius) in whose south-eastern foothills an important battle was fought in AD 86 at the time of a Roman foray into what is now Scotland. In Blaeu’s ‘Atlas’ (1662) a reference is made to ‘Grampios Montes’, showing that the name was understood in at least some quarters by that time, but just when the term ‘Grampians’ came into general use is not clear. The areas covered by the geographical terms used in this account are shown on P915410. They are largely based on the old Scottish ‘Lordships’ and are still in fairly common use, if not too clearly defined. Many have been used in geological descriptions of the Grampian Highlands and are familiar to most geologists.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>In early days the ‘high land’ was known as ‘the Mounth’ (Gaelic— Monadh) and this name was in use (at least for certain parts) as late as the cattle-droving times of the late 18th and early 19th centuries. In 1526 Hector Boece, the Scottish historian, identified the Mounth with the Mons Graupius (or Grampius) in whose south-eastern foothills an important battle was fought in AD 86 at the time of a Roman foray into what is now Scotland. In Blaeu’s ‘Atlas’ (1662) a reference is made to ‘Grampios Montes’, showing that the name was understood in at least some quarters by that time, but just when the term ‘Grampians’ came into general use is not clear. The areas covered by the geographical terms used in this account are shown on P915410. They are largely based on the old Scottish ‘Lordships’ and are still in fairly common use, if not too clearly defined. Many have been used in geological descriptions of the Grampian Highlands and are familiar to most geologists.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:P915410.png|thumbnail|P915410]]</ins></div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Physical features ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Physical features ==</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The two major boundaries of the Grampian Highlands—the Great Glen and the Highland Border—are both spectacular scenic features. Differential erosion between the softer rocks of the Midland Valley and the more resistant metamorphic rocks of the Highlands on opposite sides of the Highland Boundary Fault has resulted in an abrupt fault-line scarp which can be traced from Stonehaven in the north-east to Loch Lomond in the south-west. The feature is especially obvious when viewed across the low-lying ground between Stirling and Loch Lomond; it is the ‘Highland Line’ of history.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The two major boundaries of the Grampian Highlands—the Great Glen and the Highland Border—are both spectacular scenic features. Differential erosion between the softer rocks of the Midland Valley and the more resistant metamorphic rocks of the Highlands on opposite sides of the Highland Boundary Fault has resulted in an abrupt fault-line scarp which can be traced from Stonehaven in the north-east to Loch Lomond in the south-west. The feature is especially obvious when viewed across the low-lying ground between Stirling and Loch Lomond; it is the ‘Highland Line’ of history.</div></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr>
<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature (P000742), best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The huge straight-running depression of the Great Glen is a very obvious physical feature (<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[</ins>P000742<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.jpg]]</ins>), best appreciated from some way up from its valley floor, such as from the A82 road north of Spean Bridge or north of Drum-nadrochit. Aerial photographs provide particularly dramatic views of this spectacular linear feature, which extends across the width of the Scottish mainland.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Two contrasted types of mountain scenery are presented by the Grampian Highlands. In the Cairngorm area and around Glen Clova great relics of the original planar surface remain as broad, level moorlands cut into by deep glens and scarred by gigantic corrie-cliffs. Towards the south-west this type of mountain scenery passes into a more highly dissected type with rugged pinnacles, crests and ridges. The detail of this latter scenery depends upon the geological character and structure of the rocks. Resistant beds, such as quartzites, grits or massive gneisses, rise into linear ridges and summits. If no marked guiding planes are present, conical forms result, as in the quartzite mountains of Schiehallion, Beinn a’Ghlo and Paps of Jura. Between these resistant quartzites, grits and gneisses, belts of weaker strata such as slates, limestones and phyllites have been excavated into valleys. The tors, scree-slopes and bold corries of the Cairngorms and Lochnagar exemplify the mode of denudation of the granites which form these mountain groups. The bold cliff scenery of Glen Coe, Ben Nevis and adjacent regions is carved out of volcanic rocks or larger granitic masses.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>Two contrasted types of mountain scenery are presented by the Grampian Highlands. In the Cairngorm area and around Glen Clova great relics of the original planar surface remain as broad, level moorlands cut into by deep glens and scarred by gigantic corrie-cliffs. Towards the south-west this type of mountain scenery passes into a more highly dissected type with rugged pinnacles, crests and ridges. The detail of this latter scenery depends upon the geological character and structure of the rocks. Resistant beds, such as quartzites, grits or massive gneisses, rise into linear ridges and summits. If no marked guiding planes are present, conical forms result, as in the quartzite mountains of Schiehallion, Beinn a’Ghlo and Paps of Jura. Between these resistant quartzites, grits and gneisses, belts of weaker strata such as slates, limestones and phyllites have been excavated into valleys. The tors, scree-slopes and bold corries of the Cairngorms and Lochnagar exemplify the mode of denudation of the granites which form these mountain groups. The bold cliff scenery of Glen Coe, Ben Nevis and adjacent regions is carved out of volcanic rocks or larger granitic masses.</div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boundaries of the region described in this Regional Guide are set by well-defined natural features. On the north the limit is the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from the Moray Firth to the Firth of Lorn and whose floor never rises more than 40 m above OD. On the south the margin is the Highland Border, a line running from Stonehaven in the north-east to Arran and the lower estuary of the Clyde in the south-west, along which the relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged and elevated hills of the Scottish Highlands. Both these major topographical features follow, or largely follow, lines of faults of major structural importance—the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault respectively. The area is thus clearly determined geologically as well as topographically (P915409).</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The boundaries of the region described in this Regional Guide are set by well-defined natural features. On the north the limit is the deep trench of Glen Mor—the Great Glen of Scotland—which traverses the whole of the Highlands from the Moray Firth to the Firth of Lorn and whose floor never rises more than 40 m above OD. On the south the margin is the Highland Border, a line running from Stonehaven in the north-east to Arran and the lower estuary of the Clyde in the south-west, along which the relatively subdued topography of the Midland Valley of Scotland abruptly gives place northwards to the more rugged and elevated hills of the Scottish Highlands. Both these major topographical features follow, or largely follow, lines of faults of major structural importance—the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault respectively. The area is thus clearly determined geologically as well as topographically (P915409).<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[File:P915409.png|thumbnail|P915409]]</ins></div></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The name Grampian Highlands or ‘Grampians’ is strictly applicable only to the central mountainous part of the region but for this guide the name is also applied to the fiord coastal region in the south-west and the low-lying ground inland from the Moray Firth and Aberdeenshire coast.</div></td></tr>
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