Finding faults at Durness - a tectonic detective story 

Well, back in the day, understanding only came from looking over to the east of Loch Eriboll, then applying this understanding to Durness... It's a good example, common in geology of course (and lots of other "under-constrained" human investigations), of being curious and looking outside the immediate study area as the solution may lie elsewhere....

Thanks - yes - lots of intriguing complexity in thrust systems and the Moine Thrust Belt has great outcrops for cracking puzzles.

Have fun - it's a great area !

Thanks - more to come!

Thanks. The far north is still pretty quiet despite the publicity around NC500... at least compared with honey-pots down south....

Thanks - it's certainly a great spot. The rocks out towards Whiten Head are great, one of the best small-scale duplexes anywhere amongst other great stuff. Things might be getting a bit noisier soon as the rocket launch pad goes in....

Thanks - it's a great place to visit, along with others in the NW

You can see the striations "wrapping" around outcrop surfaces. And they're only found at beach level...In other coastal sites you can find them on walls....

Probably Triassic rifting rather than Devonian, superposed on Silurian contractional tectonics. There are strike-slip faults further east in the Moine - the most famous of which is the Great Glen Fault (see video on Rosemarkie). But it's not part of this story....

Thanks a lot. I will find the Great Glen Fault video.@@robbutler2095