Summer Foinaven Mountain On Visit To The North West Highlands Of Scotland

Tour Scotland Summer travel video, with Scottish music, of Foinaven mountain, Scottish Gaelic: Foinne Bheinn, on visit to the North West Highlands. Like many of the monolithic mountains that surround it, the mountain is within the Moine Thrust Belt and is made up of imbricated layers of Cambrian quartzite which overlie the older Lewisian gneiss basement. The quartzite, being tougher, stood firm when all the surrounding rock was eroded away, leaving the huge mountain isolated. Its highest point is named Ganu Mòr.

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