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    The Highland Boundary Fault is a major fault zone that traverses Scotland from Arran and Helensburgh on the west coast to Stonehaven in the east. It separates...
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    Central Lowlands (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    It consists of a rift valley between the Highland Boundary Fault to the north and the Southern Uplands Fault to the south. The Central Lowlands are one...
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    as the Leannan Fault. To the northeast the fault connects to the Walls Boundary Fault and the associated Melby Fault and Nestings Fault, before becoming...
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    is also used for the area north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, although the exact boundaries are not clearly defined, particularly to the east...
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    in the UK. The topography of Scotland is distinguished by the Highland Boundary Fault which traverses the Scottish mainland from Helensburgh to Stonehaven...
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    immediately to the southeast of the Highland Boundary Fault at the edge of the Grampian Highlands, Scotland. Rocks of the Highland Border Complex are exposed intermittently...
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    Toward (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    The Highland Boundary Fault passes Toward, as it crosses Scotland from Isle of Arran in the west to Stonehaven on the east coast. The geological fault line...
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  • Scotland, the mountainous region north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault. The Highland council area is a local government area in the Scottish...
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    and Bute to the west. Geographically the area is split by the Highland Boundary Fault into a more mountainous northern part and a flatter southern part...
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    Firth of Clyde (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    The Sound of Bute separates the islands of Bute and Arran. The Highland Boundary Fault crosses the Firth. The Firth also played a vital military role...
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    Grampian Mountains (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    The Grampian range extends northeast to southwest between the Highland Boundary Fault and the Great Glen. The range includes many of the highest mountains...
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    dedicated earthquake observatory in the world. Comrie lies on the Highland Boundary Fault and suffers more tremors and quakes than anywhere else in the United...
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  • exposed in a series of fault-bounded outcrops along the line of the Highland Boundary Fault that forms the southeastern boundary to the Grampian Highlands...
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    Scottish Lowlands (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    (such as Islay) are low-lying. For other purposes, the boundary varies; but if the Boundary Fault is used, then the traditional Scottish counties entirely...
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    Glenalmond (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    The change in character takes place as the river crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, leaving the Grampian Highlands for the Central Lowlands. A short...
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    River Tay, opposite Birnam. Dunkeld lies close to the geological Highland Boundary Fault, and is frequently described as the "Gateway to the Highlands"...
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    Islands is a diverse area which lies to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault; the Central Lowlands is a rift valley mainly comprising Palaeozoic...
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    Comrie, Perth and Kinross (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    national scenic area along the river Earn. Its position on the Highland Boundary Fault explains why it has more earth tremors than anywhere else in Britain...
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  • instances within Great Britain. In Scotland the Great Glen Fault and Highland Boundary Fault give rise to lineaments as does the Malvern Line in western...
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    Conic Hill , a site of special scientific interest lying on the Highland Boundary Fault. The main route goes over the summit, but an alternative "bad weather"...
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    Rosneath Peninsula (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    parallel north cuts through the southern end of the peninsula. The Highland Boundary Fault bisects the Peninsula. The peninsula is thought to be named after...
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    Loch Errochty (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    Kinross council area at the edge of the Scottish Highlands near the Highland Boundary Fault where the topography changes to lowland. The Errochty dam lies...
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    Dalradian (category Geology of Highland (council area))
    the Great Glen Fault to the northwest and the Highland Boundary Fault to the southeast. Much of Shetland east of the Walls Boundary Fault is also formed...
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    Aberfoyle, Stirling (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    Aberfoyle (Scottish Gaelic: Obar Phuill) is a village in the historic county and registration county of Perthshire and the council area of Stirling, Scotland...
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    Loch Lomond (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    is a freshwater Scottish loch which crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, often considered the boundary between the lowlands of Central Scotland and the...
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    Innellan (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    Innellan is a village in Argyll and Bute, west of Scotland, on the western shore of the Firth of Clyde. It is four miles south of Dunoon. The origin of...
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    knew and travelled frequently. The route crosses the Highland Boundary Fault, a geological fault where the Highlands meet the Lowlands. Views from the...
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    Stirling (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    Scottish Lowlands meet the rugged slopes of the Highlands along the Highland Boundary Fault. The starkness of this contrast is evidenced by the many hills...
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    Callander (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    town to the north are the Callander Crags, a visible part of the Highland Boundary Fault, rising to 343 metres (1,125 ft) at the cairn. Ben Ledi (879 metres...
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    Cowal (category Highland Boundary Fault)
    made up largely of resistant metamorphic rocks, but south of the Highland Boundary Fault part of the Toward peninsula is composed of sedimentary rocks....
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