Great Glen Fault

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The Great Glen Fault is a major geological fault line running southwest–northeast across Scotland, famously aligned with the Great Glen valley and Loch Ness.

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How this image was made

AI-generated illustration of Great Glen Fault

This AI-generated illustration was produced by black-forest-labs/FLUX.2-dev (1024x1024) from a prompt written by openai/gpt-oss-120b from the entity's label + description.

Prompt

Generate an image of the Great Glen Fault (The Great Glen Fault is a major geological fault line running southwest–northeast across Scotland, famously aligned with the Great Glen valley and Loch Ness.)

All labels observed (7)

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf geological fault ⓘ
strike-slip fault ⓘ
associatedFeature Loch Linnhe ⓘ
Loch Lochy ⓘ
Loch Ness ⓘ
Loch Oich ⓘ
continent Europe ⓘ
country Scotland ⓘ
United Kingdom ⓘ
crosses Loch Linnhe ⓘ
Loch Lochy ⓘ
Loch Ness ⓘ
Loch Oich ⓘ
currentActivity largely inactive ⓘ
displacement tens of kilometres of lateral offset ⓘ
dominantSlipSense sinistral ⓘ
extendsFrom near Fort William ⓘ
extendsTo Inverness area ⓘ
follows Great Glen valley ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen

Loch Ness ⓘ
formsValley Great Glen ⓘ
geologicalAge Paleozoic ⓘ
geologicalSystem Caledonides of Britain and Ireland ⓘ
linked to: Caledonian orogeny
hasNameOrigin named after the Great Glen valley ⓘ
hasRockUnits igneous intrusions ⓘ
metamorphic rocks ⓘ
hazardLevel low seismicity ⓘ
influences topography of the Great Glen ⓘ
length approximately 400 km ⓘ
locatedIn Great Glen ⓘ
majorActivityPeriod Carboniferous ⓘ
Devonian ⓘ
mapRepresentation linear southwest–northeast lineament across northern Scotland ⓘ
movementType strike-slip ⓘ
orientation southwest–northeast ⓘ
partOf Caledonian orogeny structures ⓘ
passesNear Fort William ⓘ
passesThrough Inverness ⓘ
region Scottish Highlands ⓘ
relatedTo Highland Boundary Fault ⓘ
Moine Thrust Belt ⓘ
linked to: Moine Supergroup
separates Grampian Mountains ⓘ
linked to: Scottish Highlands

Grampian terrane ⓘ
linked to: Grampian Terrane

Northern Highlands terrane ⓘ
linked to: Grampian Terrane

Northwest Highlands ⓘ
linked to: Scottish Highlands
tectonicSetting Caledonian orogeny ⓘ
visibleAtSurface yes ⓘ

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (19)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Highland Boundary Fault → parallelTo → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Grampian Terrane → boundedBy → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Caledonian fault system → hasPart → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Caledonian fault system → hasPart → Great Glen–Leannan Fault system ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen Fault
Great Glen → partOf → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Loch Ness → partOf → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Walls Boundary Fault → relatedTo → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Glen Albyn → partOf → Great Glen Fault zone ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen Fault
Loch Lochy → locatedOnWaterway → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Loch Oich → isPartOf → Great Glen fault zone (geographical setting) ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen Fault
Great Glen Way → follows → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Loch Linnhe → followsGeologicalFeature → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Loch Linnhe → partOf → Great Glen geological system ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen Fault
River Ness → locatedOn → Great Glen fault zone ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen Fault
River Oich → geologicalSetting → Great Glen Fault zone ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen Fault
Glen More → geologicalFeature → Great Glen Fault ⓘ
Glen More → partOf → Great Glen Fault system ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen Fault
Loch Eil → locatedIn → Great Glen Fault zone ⓘ
linked to: Great Glen Fault
Lochaber Geopark → hasGeologicalStructure → Great Glen Fault ⓘ