My Fault? EarthCache
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This is a surprising place for such an important geological feature, Rothesay's famous seafront!
This Earthcache is situated on the SW end of the Highland Boundary Fault, and you can have great fun jumping from the Highlands to the Lowlands of Scotland. To claim this cache, you must do two things:
1) Please post a picture of you (or your feet only) at the marker - with GPS clearly in view with one foot in the Highlands and one in the Lowlands!
2) You also need to visit an additional waypoint at N55 46.951 W 005 05.718. This is about 7 km drive away. Parking available.
Once here, you need to look north east along the Boundary fault back towards Rothesay and send me an email with the following answer to this question.
The Boundary Fault characteristics should be obvious from here...Looking at the visible landforms that you can see over Lochs Quien and Fad (030 degrees), up to the left - Quien and Barmore Hills (000 degrees), along with the area up to the right - Birgidale (050 degrees) - describe the VISIBLE EVIDENCE of the boundary fault.
Both of these logging requirements must be met or your log will be deleted. These additional logging requirements are part of the guidelines set by the Earthcaching organisation.
More information.... The fault runs southwest-northeast from Lochranza on Arran, across the Firth of Clyde, via Rothesay, Loch Lomond, Aberfoyle, the Menteith Hills to Callander, Comrie and Crieff. It then forms the northern boundary of the Vale of Strathmore before reaching the east coast at Stonehaven. Active during the Caledonian mountain-building episode, a plate tectonic collision which took place from Mid Ordovician to Mid Devonian periods (520 to 400 million years ago), the Highland Boundary Fault allowed the Midland Valley to descend as a major rift or graben by as much as 4000m (13,123 feet). This earlier vertical movement was later replaced by horizontal shear. A complementary fault, the Southern Upland Fault, forms the southern boundary of the Midland Valley. Please note: I no longer cache actively, but have kept these caches (Earth and Virtuals) for the enjoyment of those who do. I may not reply, therefore, to your email. If you are really looking for a reply, please don't log this cache.
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