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EARLIER geologists1–3 have considered the Great Glen fault as a normal or dip-slip fault, while Kennedy4 interpreted it as a strike-slip fault, basing his view chiefly on a lithological similarity between the Strontian and Foyers granitic complexes, and he suggested that the former has been moved 65 miles south-west along the Great Glen fault. Shand5 has not found such characteristic features of strike-slip faults as slickensides or friction-grooves and mylonite. Collette6 thinks that the fault passes to the south-east of the Shetland Islands. Flinn7 has examined the submarine topography of the Moray Firth and has outlined a possible course of the fault. Wilson8 joins the Great Glen fault to the Cabot fault of North America. Riddihough9 has conducted a detailed magnetic survey off the north coast of Ireland and suggests the presence of two faults which may have some relation to the Caledonian fault systems of Scotland.
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AHMAD, M. Some Geophysical Observations on the Great Glen Fault. Nature 213, 275–277 (1967). https://doi.org/10.1038/213275a0
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