Glencoul Loch And Mountains With Music On History Visit To The North West Highlands Scotland

Tour Scotland short 4K Summer travel video clip, with Scottish bagpipes music, of Glencoul Loch and Mountains on ancestry, geology, genealogy, family history visit and trip to the North West Highlands, Britain, United Kingdom. Geologists love the area that surrounds Loch Glencoul, as it has some of the oldest and fascinating rock formations in the world. Every year, thousands of geologists flock to study the mountains in this area, including Beinn ard da loch, which is over 500 million years old. The North-west Highlands, which are part of an ancient mountain range, the Caledonides, formed about 430 million years ago. Here the roots of the mountains are now exposed at the surface and have become world famous for their clear display of thrust relationships on an Alpine scale. The Lewisian, Torridon and Cambro Ordovician rocks to the west of the Moine Thrust Zone behaved like the stationary jaw of the vice, forming a stable continental block known as a foreland. Far away to the east, another continental mass approached, pushing westwards like the moving jaw of the vice. This pushed the Moine rocks westwards as a sheet along the Moine Thrust and onto the foreland. As compression continued, other major thrusts developed deeper down, taking the easy route provided by weak rocks, such as the Fucoid Beds. Within the Moine Thrust Zone, the rocks of the underlying foreland were thus sliced into sheets and piled up in a different order from that in which they were originally laid down. Of interest to folks with ancestry, genealogy or Scottish Family Roots in Scotland who may wish to visit one day. Find things to see and do in Scotland where you are always welcome. @tourscotland All photographs are copyright of Sandy Stevenson, Tour Scotland, and may not be used without permission.

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