Why There's a Straight Line Through Scotland

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If you take a look at a map of Scotland, you'll notice an eerily straight line running through the highlands, this is the Great Glen Fault the product of half a billion years of time and geology.
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@SciShow 4 месяца назад

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@ajvandelay8318 4 месяца назад

You've never observed, nor can you repeat 66 billion years. This is not science.

@xequals-pc1wl 4 месяца назад

@@ajvandelay8318 Moron. I'm a time traveller and can report that the Romans dug the Great Glen.

@ljr6490 4 месяца назад

@@ajvandelay8318 That is not what "observation" means. You are conflating "observation" with "watching"

@BenjaminPMorrill 3 месяца назад

Oh that is hilarious. Dear Scotsman. We call that a dad joke here :-)

@annekerr1729 15 дней назад

😂😂😂❤

@wpb1395 5 месяцев назад

I remember a Scottish person telling me that Scotland was wandering around the oceans and it could have run into any country, but it had to run into fookin' England.

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 месяца назад

England stole it from north America. And Noway tried to nick Greenland as well.

@jackwatsonepic626 2 месяца назад

Lol😂🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@darkstarr2321 Месяц назад

Not surprised, we tend to live in their heads rent free

@jackwatsonepic626 Месяц назад

@@darkstarr2321 some English , not all 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@Cygnet2 Месяц назад

But it wasn't Scotland or England when this happened.........Why did you feel the need to bring nationalities into it? You have a silly brain.

@YvonTripper 5 месяцев назад

This shows that Scottish independence is inevitable in the next 66 million years

@daggag21 18 дней назад

😂😂😂

@danpictish5457 15 дней назад

Sooner if I can help and it could be my fault again!

@Bamsebrakar2011 14 дней назад

Only for the northern Highlands

@zebis3534 12 дней назад

@Bamsebrakar2011 it's fine we'll apply gorilla glue to the fault between lowlands and the highland so it can come with

@crismillet62 11 дней назад

😂😂

@bendenisereedy7865 5 месяцев назад

Have a look at the Highland Boundary Fault further south, which separates the Highlands from the Lowlands. The small town of Comrie in Perthshire is known as "shaky toun" as it's right on the fault and gets dozens of small tremors a year. It even has the world's first seismology station, built in 1840. It's a lovely area to visit with fantastic scenery.

@R3_Rapta 4 месяца назад

Haha that’s where I live!

@kirsteneasdale5707 8 дней назад

I live just above the Highland Boundary Fault, on the Loch Long Fault. I remember experiencing an earthquake here in 1985. It was quite a loud bang followed by a violent shoogle. I thought there had been an explosion nearby and that our house had slipped down the hill. Of course it hadn’t but an earthquake isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when you experience something like that in Scotland.

@MP-fw4ub 5 месяцев назад

Always amazes me as you drive north across it. The total and pretty abrupt change in the scenery. It's a very special place.

@eric2500 5 месяцев назад

Cross that line on the right train route up from London is the MOST amazing experience. *You have arrived in Scotland!*

@eric2500 5 месяцев назад

Wrong line - *I was thinking of the one far closer to the national border, and it is not as spectacular as the Great Glen.* It's beautiful on it's own though.

@MP-fw4ub 5 месяцев назад

It's as you go up the A9 north of Stirling it kicks in

@richardscally694 5 месяцев назад

It's stunningly beautiful.

@jarraandyftm 5 месяцев назад

@@MP-fw4ubthat road 😬

@danpictish5457 2 года назад

Greetings from Scotland. I'm a highlander and it's definitely my fault!

@maxpulido4268 2 года назад

Reported

@whatabouttheearth 2 года назад

😂😂😂 Geology itself is basically the fault of the Scottish Check out the Geology videos in this playlist I made, there alot of stuff about Scotland, y'all basically made modern Geology ru-vid.com/group/PLgRoK-eyLjomaNEGNHjb1r8YWbUzVIskd

@iaincampbell4422 Год назад

Fellow scot. Underrated comment.

@BrokenToken1 Год назад

I'm a glaswegian!

@kated9914 Год назад

Greetings from the US. I'm a New Englander and it's definitely my sister's fault.

@Hjaelteomslag 2 года назад

It did this to make a perfectly straight line for Nessie to swim through when she wants to leave Loch Ness.

@MikeSugarbaker 2 года назад

Nessie has evaded capture for decades without even having the ability to turn. Magnificent creature

@ianmacfarlane1241 2 года назад

@@MikeSugarbaker Magnificent creature....or log.

@Davey-Boyd 2 года назад

I thought it was to stop wild haggis roaming to the South

@1701Starfish 2 года назад

@@Davey-Boyd Wild haggis never leave the mountain they are born on. Interesting fact - they also never move up or down a mountain, they remain at the same elevevation they were at birth because females have longer legs on their left side, males on their right, so females can only walk around the mountain slope clockwise and males anti-clockwise.

@jonstfrancis 2 года назад

Originally, Nessie swam along the Laurentia coast and then almost got trapped in Loch Ness when the continents collided, luckily as you state she can leave along the straight line whenever scientists come to find her :)

@dougaltolan3017 5 месяцев назад

It's all Feng Shui. Since dragons can only run in straight lines, this feature makes Nessie feel at home.

@larsrons7937 19 дней назад

That might be so. I'm Danish so it's definitely not my fault.

@Palemagpie 15 дней назад

Ohh I like that answer.

@MP-vc4nu 8 дней назад

Nah it’s caused by Excalibur, It was the final battle

@mechan2535 4 месяца назад

hello a scotsman here from glasgow, another thing also is we built the caledonian canal along this fault, so we connected all the lochs and waterways along the full length of scotland, so you can get a boat from the atlantic ocean on the left to the north sea on the right, you can hire boats and do it if you wish.

@talideon 2 года назад

Slightly further south is the Iapetus Suture, which is what separates the Laurentian plate from the Avalonian plate. It runs close to the Scottish border, down through the Isle of Man where you can actually see the bare rocks, and through Ireland down to the Shannon Estuary. It's had a huge effect on history.

@SatumainenOlento 2 года назад

Cool! Thank you!!!!

@WillArtie 2 года назад

Noice!

@dontbotherreading 2 года назад

All I saw was plates, now I'm hungry

@sidthur2268 2 года назад

@geostyma 2 года назад

Such knowledge . Dope

@Mirandorl 2 года назад

When you travel from one side of the fault line to the other, due to the plates being made of different types of rock the scenery changes completely. From a brownish, rounded-off quality to the hills and mountains in the east, to pure grey granite with very little coverage of moss and plants in the west. It's like suddenly stepping into Austria 🙂

@chiefsdad 2 года назад

Not dissimilar to the change in the Peak District at the great ridge between Edale and Hope Valley. To the north is sandstone (millstone grit), forming the domed mountains and moors of the Dark Peak; to the south is carboniferous limestone, forming the dales (plateaus and valleys) of the White Peak. The change and contrast is sudden and dramatic.

@thomasdrysdale4240 2 года назад

I can confirm this, I live in the thing, on one out of my bedroom door I see Austria, from my conservatory I see the alps

@IndigoBikeTouring Год назад

@@chiefsdad its nothing like the peak district, that doesnt even belong in this conversation

@chiefsdad Год назад

@@IndigoBikeTouring who made you the arbitrator?

@Trylobyte Год назад

Fascinating observation! I must go and see

@Gilgamesh347 5 месяцев назад

Some arial view pics of what it looks like from above would have been a nice compliment to this interesting topic.

@JamesHartnell 2 месяца назад

Yeah, weird - I have more questions than before I watched this video. Bit rubbish really.

@jimf671 5 месяцев назад

My fault too. Those of us educated locally who took Geography to Higher are pretty familiar with all the details. That straight line extends way beyond the sea shore at Caol or Inverness and can be seen extending at least to Mull and perhaps Islay and Jura in the South and to Tarbat Ness and maybe even Wick in the North. As major faults go, it's pretty quiet. Earthquakes in the UK are almost all less than 4.5 and activity here is usually a lot less than that. Only one event directly on the fault in the last 60 days (BGS) and it was 0.8. The glaciation has carved out a trench that reaches down to around 300m to 400m below sea level and at four places along this trench it is filled with glacio-fluvial deposits to above sea level. These allow Fort William, Laggan, Fort Augustus and Inverness to provide home for around 70,000 people and prevents there being two separate islands. Loch Ness is the largest and best known of the lochs that fill the gaps between these plugs of sand and gravel. It has a muddy flat-bottom due to deposition from huge catchment area and is a maximum of 223m deep (surface elevation 16m). I always get a laugh when construction projects run by people from elsewhere start drilling in central Inverness trying to find bedrock without understanding that it is several hundred metres down. The BGS database clearly shows results from a 19th century drill exploration to nearly 100m and all it shows is sand and gravel with occasional minor clay deposits. The buildings all seem to stay up!

@lukasrentz3238 5 месяцев назад

Its a Problem we know from Fault Lines where stress builds up only very slowly (if at all): We don´t know what they are capable for. Strong Quakes on such Faults are rather 1 in a 1000 or 10 000 Years events. The Fault line (or fault system) is certainly still active. I could imagine a new Episode of Activity started after the End of the last Ice Age when the Retreating Ice Cover let the ground bounce back which induced pressure onto the Faults. Quakes which could be attributed to the Great Glenn or nearby Faults are a 4.3 (USGS) in 1974 and a 4.2 (USGS) in 1986. Noteworthy also a 4.6 (+/- 0.3) near Inverness in 1816 with Intensity 7-8 (via Archive of European Earthquake Data). A 1 in 1000(0) Years Quake could easily be a M6 one.

@larsrons7937 19 дней назад

I can tell it ain't my fault. I'm from Denmark. But nice and interesting fault.

@2MeterLP 2 года назад

SciShow: Straight line through a country GeoWizard: heavy breathing

@mosmes02 2 года назад

I understand this reference!

@HermanVonPetri 2 года назад

Queue Tom's walking mission music.

@Dog-eg8lc 2 года назад

Queue angry farmers

@awesomelyshorticles 2 года назад

The whole scotland mission I was thinking of this specific line

@GhostsOfThings 2 года назад

My first thought hahaha~

@draziraphale 2 года назад

A lot of my PhD was on this. I studied how magnetic fields interact with the carbon in the Iapetus Suture and Variscan orogenic faults and this enabled me to find where the former ancient ocean bed residue was, and allowed me to make 3D models of the Earth's crust in Ireland.

@SchoolforHackers 2 года назад

Now that is cool.

@MolloyPolloy 2 года назад

That's amazing 👏 I'd love to see it. Is it available online?

@medad5413 2 года назад

Interesting

@dirkhamilton2709 2 года назад

Now that’s the coolest thing I’ve heard in a while!

@Karlen53 2 года назад

Yes! We’d love to see your work!

@catherineford6741 5 месяцев назад

Have you ever done an episode that talks about the Appalachian Mountains and the Scottish Highlands being a part of the same mountain range?

@HappyBeezerStudios 4 месяца назад

Not just those two, big parts of the norwegian mountains are also part of the same orogeny.

@Michael-sb8jf 11 дней назад

Atlas mountains too or evidence suggests they are

@helenamcginty4920 6 месяцев назад

I learned about this some long time ago. But just as I reread a good novel I love to be reminded about stuff. Often there is new bit of infirmation as a bonus. Thanks.

@drawingboard82 2 года назад

It's so we can have lochs deep enough to hold monsters in.

@SatumainenOlento 2 года назад

The most logical explanation 👍😀 Love it!

@polyherb4096 2 года назад

And hence the lochness monster

@rickyspanish6261 2 года назад

Nah its the Monloch sterness

@christinehunt625 2 года назад

🤣

@marcdenton2996 2 года назад

So we’ve found where Godzilla & Mothra have come from?

@tj4234 2 года назад

I live in that valley. The Great Glen. Very scenic.

@ImTHECarlos98 2 года назад

Can boats go through the valley? Or is it not actually covered in water?

@Daniel_leading_the_13_Plateans 2 года назад

Wow I visited Scotland would love to live in those hills

@bidders77 2 года назад

Tj4234 can you travel from one side of Scotland to the other solely by traveling the Great Glenn fault line valley?

@tj4234 2 года назад

@@ImTHECarlos98 yes they can. There's a canal that runs through it. Only small boats though, it's not a wide canal. The Isle of Skye is the large inner island that looks a bit like a wing. It has some high mountains on it. That's roughly a viewing distance of about 200 miles.

@tj4234 2 года назад

@@Daniel_leading_the_13_Plateans if you stand at the tip of the Great Glenn on its north eastern side, you can actually see the Isle of Skye in the distance (because the Great Glenn is below sea level like the video says).

@gregoryoutdoors 5 месяцев назад

I just walked Great Glen Way by Loch Ness from Fort Williams all the way to Inverness there, was quite amazing.

@1nikg 4 месяца назад

I'm hoping to do it soon. I've done the west highland way the proper way and I've been up the Highlands every year since. Glen Coe is my favourite place, it's majestic

@gregoryoutdoors 3 месяца назад

@@1nikg Its epic

@davidlittle7182 8 дней назад

Fort William

@Max-wo7zp 5 месяцев назад

520 million years ago.. got it!

@glenngriffon8032 2 года назад

The line is a result of things formed during Caledonian Orogeny... So Scotland is an...Orogenous Zone?

@zadtheinhaler 2 года назад

Found Eccentrica Gallumbit's YT account.

@davidnewtown8774 2 года назад

I know it's a joke, but also, yes, that's the term for a region characterized by mountain-building 😂 geologists have a lot of fun

@zadtheinhaler 2 года назад

@@davidnewtown8774 That's awfully gneiss of you not to go after the low-hanging fruit.

@gearandalthefirst7027 2 года назад

@@zadtheinhaler schist, that's the pun I was going to use

@td1559 2 года назад

The great glen hasn't been an orogenous zone for a very long time - its very old and inactive.

@lisalabar7262 2 года назад

I can tell you that here in Connecticut, on the East side of the river, is definitely proof that Scotland and America did indeed collide. The soil and rocks are the same as they are in Scotland. On the western side of the Connecticut River, the soil and rocks are completely different and have almost none of the same qualities. I’ve lived here for over 50 years and I also enjoy Geology. Specimens are VERY different! 🇺🇸🕊

@oklahomahank2378 2 года назад

Namibia also shares geology with areas in Latin America.

@lisalabar7262 2 года назад

@Karen S Hi! You wouldn’t happen to be talking about Devils Hopyard, would you? Lots of crazy noises there! 🕊

@markscott554 2 года назад

I heard something similar from coal miners.

@lisalabar7262 2 года назад

@Karen S Say no more LOL! The 70’s were a great time, as long as you remember them! 🥰

@lisalabar7262 2 года назад

Anyone who is interested in this area should look it up. Haddam Ct. I tried 2X to post a link, however I guess it went against the rules or something, because it doesn’t show up in these comments! 🕊🇺🇸

@Rew101 4 месяца назад

Everyone knows it’s where goku fired his Kamehameha!!!

@chegeny 2 года назад

About 300 million years ago, there was quite a massive mountain range called the Central Pangean Mountains. The Scottish Highlands are part of the remnants of those ancient mountains that were once as high as the Himalayas. The Appalachians in the US were also part of that range.

@jetaddict420 2 года назад

@Ricky Barber balls

@mb8787 2 года назад

I'll quip: I don't think it was called anything 300 millons years ago. 😏😊(😄)

@leticiaromano6054 2 года назад

@Ricky Barber No, you're wrong. We know how old something is based on a combination of stratigraphy and actual radiometric dating techniques. It's possible to date some rocks very precisely based on the decay of certain isotope (here's an example: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubidium%E2%80%93strontium_dating). Other times, we can see what order rocks appear and compare this with the local and greater area. If you have any specific questions, feel free to ask.

@marshalofod1413 2 года назад

@@leticiaromano6054 I wouldn't bother. Ricky Barber is obviously willfully ignorant. He doesn't want to learn. He only wants his worldview upheld. His ignorance is his bliss...

@sandysand3097 2 года назад

You can tell yourself anything, just as someone else can say anything. No one is right

@piplupcola 2 года назад

Scishow: It happened recently Me: oh cool when? Scishow: 66 million years ago Me: huh. For some reason I was expecting it to be like more recent than that

@anyascelticcreations 2 года назад

🤣🤣🤣

@oxy900 2 года назад

Deep time

@NicoUnken 2 года назад

I was expecting 60 years ago, not 60 MILLION years ago XD

@micaelgarcia1576 2 года назад

And I was expecting 60 thousand :P

@knucklesskinner253 2 года назад

That amount of time is a pinch of salt compared to how long the earth has been around

@AhJodie 5 месяцев назад

I love the idea that someone once wondered how this was so, then started thinking and got together with others and they all had ideas and looked at a lot of different things from what they collected and observed and gradually came up with this theory..... there are other theories too.... love to all!

@straighttalking2090 5 месяцев назад

This is what we need today. More love on the internet

@johnjiv5790 5 месяцев назад

That man was James Hutton. Also from Scotland.

@martindornan1667 4 месяца назад

James Hutton born 1726 - died 1797, from Scotland is known as the father of geology.

@robertstrobel9516 4 месяца назад

Outstanding video, we are traveling from America to Scotland for a wedding and wanted to hike in the highlands. Your video presentation has given us the knowledge to understand the topographic features and made our visit that much more interesting. Thank You

@davidfalconer9281 4 месяца назад

Go to Glencoe… just trust me. I’m a Scotsman 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 💛

@NarwahlGaming 10 дней назад

It's been 4 months! How was the trip? 😊

@robertstrobel9516 9 дней назад

@@NarwahlGaming Trip is in July 2024. We are preplanning to get the most out of our 7 day visit.

@KurtRichterCISSP 2 года назад

Was hoping you'd mention the Scottish Highlands were once connected to America's Appalachia

@harrietharlow9929 2 года назад

Indeed ithey were. Some of the most ancient mountainous areas in Scotland were once part ofthe Central Pangean Mountains, which include the Appalachians, the Little Atlas of Morrocco and much of the Scottish Highlands. Here's a bit on the Great Glen Fault, which actually continues on the other side of the Atlantic: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Glen_Fault

@rogermac358 2 года назад

The Highlands are still connected to Appalachia, in the hearts of thousands of Scottish descendants!

@kingpest13 2 года назад

@@rogermac358 funny, when I read the ops comment that's what I thought of.

@smellybing 2 года назад

Yea. Too bad they didn’t

@Benzy670 2 года назад

My Scottish ancestors (really only a few generations ago) from the Highlands settled along the Appalachians here in New England. Makes sense they felt at home here! I long to visit the Highlands someday and our ancestral castle. Long live Scotland!

@SivakAurak 2 года назад

Man, Scotland has been trying to leave the UK for a while now it seems.

@dr.jamesolack8504 2 года назад

Scotland has been harassed long enough. Time for revolution!

@Imsailig 2 года назад

The exact opposite actually; it formed far away and has moved towards it….watch the video

@33m3c 2 года назад

@@Imsailig Fun fact, Scotland existed before England was a thing, so... it wasnt the uk it was the land lol

@chippysteve4524 2 года назад

Only if you play it backwards!

@Dz73zxxx 2 года назад

@@dr.jamesolack8504 "They may take our lives, but they'll *never* take, our freedom!"

@delboyg2690 5 месяцев назад

Great video 🙏🏻going to walk it next year will remember its history. Thanks for sharing

@isaiasabinadisosagarcia936 18 дней назад

Thanks for all these years of amazing content!

@jliller 2 года назад

Who's Fault Is It Anyway? A new geology comedy show. Coming soon to a RU-vid channel near you!

@dwaneanderson8039 2 года назад

"Scotland, this is all YOUR fault!"

@ToyKeeper 2 года назад

The Fault In Our Scars ... er, geological scars.

@chimps4gimps 2 года назад

There’s definitely a Trainspotting quote that belongs in here 😂

@lasthopeij 2 года назад

The geology here (Scotland) is amazing and never fails to leave me in awe.

@ianmacfarlane1241 2 года назад

Loch Awe?

@randyross5630 2 года назад

The Line starts just below Easter Ross which is the Easter Half of Ross-shire and Geologically speaking the area is referred to as Ross...

@thedroid6462 2 года назад

Sutherland is a mini Rockies. Gorgeous.

@janicesullivan8942 2 года назад

Edinburgh Castle sits on a dead volcano, not surprised that there’s a “line” running through Scotland. Beautiful country, I’m very lucky to have visited there.

@whatabouttheearth 2 года назад

This is a playlist I made, the geology videos talk alot about Scotland, the Scottish basically made modern Geology, it goes into some of the history (Evans is a Geology professor down here in southern Missouri who's been to Scotland and calls it the holy land of geologists) ru-vid.com/group/PLgRoK-eyLjomaNEGNHjb1r8YWbUzVIskd

@eugenegilleno9344 5 месяцев назад

Quick, precise answer without a lot of useless info. Thanks. 😁👍🏼

@baldric44 4 месяца назад

Thank you very much for your informative video, much love from Scotland

@juliamorganscott9384 2 года назад

So interesting that the Scottish Highlands and the Appalachians once connected. There is also another weird absolutely straight line valley in Tennessee called the Sequatchie Valley, where I grew up. It’s clearly visible on Google Earth.

@James_Knott 5 месяцев назад

Add to that the St. Lawrence Seaway, which is Lake Erie, Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence River, which form an almost straight line along the northern edge of the Appalachians and the two lakes are part of the border between Canada & U.S..

@thomasshepard6030 5 месяцев назад

Maybe that’s why so many Scottish people settled in the Appalachian Mountains

@ronaldharding3927 5 месяцев назад

@@thomasshepard6030no, that's where the English on the shephelah forced us to live. They wanted us as a shield against the Native Americans, and had no intention of letting us live with them. Yes Walden Ridge runs from TN to Europe it plays out in Germany.

@andymoore1527 5 месяцев назад

@ronaldharding3927 that's interesting, I always thought prospecting and mining drew people into those mountains. I'm English but I live in Scotland. I'm interested in the history of the interior of the United States. Its not something we learn much about in the UK. Everything we hear revolves around New York and Los Angeles.

@juliamorganscott9384 5 месяцев назад

@@andymoore1527 A wonderful book you might like is "Cracker Culture: Celtic Ways in the Old South" by Dr. Grady McWhiney.

@o80y1 2 года назад

It’s where the weans were turned on Limmy

@dannywalker1927 2 года назад

did she turn the weans against him, aye?

@scottishrc7857 2 года назад

I heard if you sit in one of the Lochs with a bottle of Irn Bru and chant Maggie Thatcher 3 times, Falconhoof appears.

@AlanHoey86 2 года назад

The continents colliding created the loudest blahem known to man.

@samdherring 2 года назад

RIP Benny Harvey

@RealUlrichLeland 2 года назад

@@samdherring Gone but not forgotten big man 🥲

@beachbum4691 Месяц назад

A no-nonsense high-speed presentation riddled with insights and facts? to me that deserves a tick and a subscribe which I've just done :)

@CareelBay 17 дней назад

Ditto!

@stephanieyee9784 2 года назад

This is really interesting and informative. Thanks for the video.

@whatabouttheearth 2 года назад

More Geology vids in this playlist I made, it fascinates me. Alot about Scotland ru-vid.com/group/PLgRoK-eyLjomaNEGNHjb1r8YWbUzVIskd

@andrewmcphee8965 2 года назад

Always wondered about that straight line, thought it was glacial activity. Never realised it was originally caused by tectonic plates. Awesome, thanks!

@aaronmarks9366 2 года назад

I've had this question subconsciously for years, but it never occurred to me that it could be answered. Thanks SciShow!

@johnliberty3647 2 года назад

I have been asking myself about this for decades and found this video, thanks for posting this so us geology dorks can know

@totrigo6834 5 месяцев назад

What about the straight line in the southwest of Spain, going along Huelva - Seville - Córdoba?

@urk5204 4 месяца назад

That line reminds me of the Transverse Ranges here in Southern California, most notably the mountain range next to Los Angeles. Funny enough, these mountains are also along a couple strike-slip faults, the most notable one being the San Andreas

@larsrons7937 19 дней назад

@@urk5204 Yes, San Andreas slips from time to time. It's not my fault.

@joshuadempsey5281 2 года назад

Asks "why don't we see more strait lines in geology like this?" and then proceeds to ignore his own question and move on without even an attempted answer.

@ericvanzytveld9034 2 года назад

He mentioned the reasons: ice age carving and surface features. He just didn't say things like, "first" or "also" or "another reason is". But he did answer it.

@joshuadempsey5281 2 года назад

@@ericvanzytveld9034 he explained how this happened, but not why we don't see more of it.

@ericvanzytveld9034 2 года назад

@@joshuadempsey5281: it's also a 2-min video. I'd expect he'd say more if he made a 5-min video. It's also possible it's that rare, that just the right set of circumstances worked. Other locations have different sets and different results.

@ethelredhardrede1838 2 года назад

@@joshuadempsey5281 Partly because its not always straight. The San Andreas Fault in California is the same type of strike-slip fault between two plates but its bent due to the Sierra Nevadas. Southern California is where it bends. In many places where two plates are against each other the plates are moving towards each other. Such as India into Asia or Africa into Eurasia.

@billwilson-es5yn 3 месяца назад

Freaks of nature? There's a straight mountain valley in the Canadian Rockies that is 600 miles long. Those are rugged upthrust mountains and geologists have no idea how the crust managed to break in a straight line for that far.

@jamesfarrell8339 2 года назад

Thank you scissor for all of the great content over the years Always interesting and subject matter that I never knew anything about I love it and always look forward when new videos come out I also enjoy watching some of the older videos again Keep up the great work Have a wonderful day today ✨

@terveron 5 месяцев назад

Great vid, straight to the point, clear, thorough. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

@youejtube7692 5 месяцев назад

Loch Ness - that valley is Loch Ness and very very deep. Lots of places for a sea monster to dwell and hide!

@skehleben7699 5 месяцев назад

Geology is always so facinating. I love the sloooow march of the tectonic plates always in sloooow motion, except the bursts of crazy activity!🏔🌍🌎⚡

@haperawehiwehi8661 2 года назад

We have a straight line here in NZ too but its much younger- the Alpine fault, that only formed within the last 40-30 MY.

@girlsdrinkfeck 2 года назад

Earth is 7k years old

@columnarbasalt4677 2 года назад

Explain the geology within 7k years old then

@jablue4329 2 года назад

@@columnarbasalt4677 Don't bother; their logic is that it was made like that, with evidence of it being older put there to test us or w/e. You can't argue with that.

@DenkyManner 2 года назад

@@girlsdrinkfeck it's actually 7 years old. we're all robots with false memories.

@Apocalymon 2 года назад

@@DenkyManner Boltzmann's Robots! RISE UP!!

@nanniwa 2 года назад

They didn't even mention that the larger part of the Laurentian plate that adjoined Scotland is now the Laurentian Shield part of North America, mostly in Canada.

@rosiefay7283 2 года назад

This video was about part of Scotland. It's not always about North America.

@Maru7en 2 года назад

You’d think the extra info would be educational enough to include, you know, also to add more to an already short video

@wilfdarr 2 года назад

Ya it was a 3 minute video, the extra material sold have worked well.

@PhantomOfThePsy-Opera 2 года назад

@@rosiefay7283 lol....salty?...geez

@Kiltoonie 5 месяцев назад

Good short viddy: I know this fault well, because the Caledonian canal is a superb route for a scenic boat trip, and one I have done very often.

@sarahdon3165 Месяц назад

This was so good thank you , I live in the UK and have always wondered why it was like that ❤❤

@jedironin380 2 года назад

I've traveled along the Caledonian Canal in Scotland. Beautiful land and lochs up there!

@SoCal_rnr 2 года назад

Nah, this is what happens when there is only one highlander and they test their power through their blade

@mamacat63 2 года назад

Yeah, because the first Highlander died last year

@mavrosyvannah 2 года назад

Exactly, MacGregor!

@MONK-7 2 года назад

I am Connor macleod of the clan Macleod and I cannot die!

@ziondanny7081 5 месяцев назад

Did the Caledonian canal by kayak back in '84. A good trip, despite it snowing on the Loch Ness section.

@SuperCarbohydrate Год назад

Thank you so much for the interesting explanation!!

@raoulduke344 2 года назад

Even the land in Scotland has a slash on its face.

@sync4995 2 года назад

😂😂😂 you win.

@m.a4491 2 года назад

Underrated comment 🤣

@icatjam 5 месяцев назад

I don't know anyone with a slash in their face and most of my friends are Glaswegian incl. My ex deid husband

@whiteknightcat 2 года назад

I kind of prefer my own vision of Slartibartfast being responsible for all this. And the fjords, of course.

@sirandrelefaedelinoge 2 года назад

@aaronleverton4221 2 года назад

He got an award for them. The fjords.

@garyross3453 5 месяцев назад

There is something similar in Japan which is visible through Shikoku Island called the Japan Median Tectonic Line. The Kobe earthquake of 1995 was on a branch of it.

@yippeelearningfrench7583 2 года назад

Fascinating. Thank you for this video.

@josephmccarthy4307 2 года назад

There's a similar fault on the southeast/eastern shore of the Great Slave Lake in Canada. The Great Slave Lake Shear zone runs through there, and can be seen from space, despite it not being active in well over a billion years. It is from the Taltson- Thelon Orogeny, and is related to the Trans-Hudson Orogeny, which formed the geologic core of Laurentia 2 billion years ago.

@GaryDunion 2 года назад

Loch Ness is in the Great Glen - it takes up about a third of its length.

@alegsb3943 Год назад

Also this one called “Loch Lochy” quite funny

@slook7094 2 года назад

I've always noticed this and always wondered about it, thank you.

@deniseblades41 4 месяца назад

Had a boating holiday in the Great Glen years ago, fantastic two weeks, Dennis

@CooltasticOG 2 года назад

I always wondered too tbh, I am into war map games and seeing the valley line on Scotland made me curious.

@scottishrc7857 2 года назад

Hello from Scotland. Hope everyone is well.

@stefanjakubowski8222 2 года назад

We are trying, best to you and yours

@kellydalstok8900 2 года назад

I was hoping to visit Schotland in three weeks time, but my holiday was canceled again due to COVID. I moved it forward to May 2022. Fingers crossed

@derekscanlan4641 2 года назад

back at you from dublin!

@camerondon3712 2 года назад

And hello to you, likely from a different part of Scotland.

@jimmy2k4o 6 месяцев назад

@@kellydalstok8900maybe fate is trying to help you….

@Slash1066 5 месяцев назад

Been there many times, it's one of the most beautiful places in the UK with Ben Nevis, Loch Ness and much more nearby

@anthonydolio8118 9 дней назад

Awesome explanation. Thank you.

@tsya 2 года назад

aah i love this topic. i'm on google earth everyday and have always wondered about this. thank you! more geography videos please

@benscrolio7493 2 года назад

I've been wondering why there is a line in Scotland for a while but never had the balls to figure out. God bless you for making this

@mikeball6182 5 месяцев назад

"the balls"? I think there's a reason you couldn't figure it out, but somebody else will have to explain.

@user-xk4jx1xl7f 4 месяца назад

It was really my grandad in his JCB that caused it. 😂

@antoniog.z.4372 5 месяцев назад

Thanks. I’d noticed the line on maps and I wondered if there was an explanation to it. Cheers!!

@Blitzkrieg1976 2 года назад

Relatively recently- 66 million years ago. Still fascinating! I love this channel❤

@dannywalker1927 2 года назад

Quite the coincidence. Was talking to my pal about this recently when we were hiking in the Cairngorms!

@SoiSoiSourzz 2 года назад

did ye aye?

@stoatystoat174 6 месяцев назад

You can drive a boat from one end of the Great Glen to the other. All long thin Lochs (lakes) joined by rivers or canals.

@kjh789az 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for explaining this! I've often wondered about the creation of this fault.

@hoon_sol 5 месяцев назад

Don't blame me, it's not my fault.

@kawawangkowboy9566 2 года назад

Caledonian Orogeny sounds like a Proclaimers/Prodigy mashup band.

@davidgessin-mccully3919 2 года назад

“And I will drive the fire starter, twisted fire starter, 500 miles lmfao 😂😂💀

@bagoquarks 2 года назад

We need some more love songs here in the U.S. Please send the brothers on tour, thanks.

@JoeySchmidt74 2 года назад

That could be me, I can do heavy electronic music!

@Gartferry 2 года назад

Glaciers don’t carve when they recede: they “carve” when they advance. (2.10)

@mireillelebeau2513 2 года назад

Good point! snd sound scientific criticism.

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

Maybe he meant to say something like “They reveal what they have carved up when they recede” 🤔

@maxpulido4268 2 года назад

@@vice.nor.virtue so they meant to not be wrong

@vice.nor.virtue 2 года назад

@@maxpulido4268 yeahhh. They didn’t really hit all the nails squarely on the head with this video. 🧐

@bill5974 4 месяца назад

The company i work for recently drilled a 750m deep borehole on the GGF as part of a hydro scheme. It was very interesting and greatly updated the BGS data in that area.

@SjaakSchulteis 4 месяца назад

I have seen pictures of it before, but never gave it much thought. This was interesting to learn!

@jrsands 2 года назад

What is also interesting is that the brown rocky formations around the GGL are molecularly exactly the same rock that New England “Brown Stones” are made from.

@paavobergmann4920 5 месяцев назад

I´d guess it´s really the same rock. The oldest central parts of the Appalachians are also Caledonian Orogenesis, and the North Atlantic opened much later and tore Laurasia apart, so parts of the same old Brown Stones are now on both sides of the pond.

@lindseyhiccups 2 года назад

Much love from Scotland 😊🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💙

@klaussterken559 21 день назад

Oh bonny Scotland Caldonia you calling me!

@oogdiver 2 года назад

The Caledonian canal connects Fort William and Inverness using the lochs along the Great Glen fault and man-made canals and locks.

@marcdb1412 5 месяцев назад

Thank you. Very interesting explanation. Cheers.

@MauriatOttolink 2 года назад

An interest addition to this video is that the geology on each side of the straight fault line is widely different...different rock types, different formations, different fossil remains and different rivers which stop at the fault, never crossing it. I believe that one side clearly matches Labrador on the other side of the Atlantic.

@russellparratt9859 2 года назад

Thanks for writing that. It was the question on my mind as soon as I watched this youtube.

@MauriatOttolink 2 года назад

@@russellparratt9859 Hi Russell. No trained expert I, but a fascinated reader. Can't offer proof but what I have read over the years. (We don't keep confirmed evidence of that, do we?) That mapped straight line caught my attention years ago.

@MauriatOttolink 2 года назад

@Alboito Einschtien No. There is a WIDE difference (wide variation) in geology, not a WILD one. Didn't you mean to put a question mark on the end of yours? Thanks Alboito.

@russellparratt9859 2 года назад

@@MauriatOttolink I mainly read history, but I have always had an interest in various aspects of science, including geology and palaeontology, even if I don't have the time to pursue these things via books these days. There is only so much time in a day.......

@MauriatOttolink 2 года назад

@@russellparratt9859 Hi Russell.. We find great unexpected gems for which, time of day just HAS to be expanded.

@fawkyou2001 2 года назад

funny thing, lots of people say that the only modern border between 2 countries that makes logical sense is the one between scotland and england because the type of rocks left over from these different mega continents promote different kinds of plant growth which in turn promotes different fauna and thus different cultures form around them

@ChrispyNut 2 года назад

Lots of people say the Earth's flat.

@ulrichkalber9039 2 года назад

@@ChrispyNut Lots of people say the Earth's not flat.

@alisoncircus 2 года назад

Except this isn't anywhere near the Scotland/England border. There is a different fault that is near - but not on - that border, which is not nearly as obvious as this. Basically you don't know what tf you're talking about and are repeating things half heard and totally misunderstood. Are you actually a Scotsman? Because this fault runs from Fort William to Inverness. If you think that's the border with England, you are entirely by yourself in that belief. Also, if you think the type of rocks dictates national demarcation, you clearly think of Scotland as at least 5 different countries.

@ChrispyNut 2 года назад

@@ulrichkalber9039 Exactly. "Lots of people say" is meaningless (unless you're Trump, in which case it's the most valuable thing ever, when it's what he wants people to believe, otherwise it's trash).

@Kyle-gw6qp 2 года назад

Nope. The Scottish border is like a hundred miles south of the Great Glen. Edinburgh (and possibly Glasgow as well?) Is south of the Great Glen.

@Chris-hh1de 5 месяцев назад

Excellent, never knew that. Thank you 👍

@laffi 5 месяцев назад

Well this was new to me! Thanks for the video!

@jacktough 2 года назад

"God doesn't build in straight lines." --Prometheus "Hold my Tennent's..." --Scotland

@theylietoyouall.5051 2 года назад

Tennants, ironically the drink of the homeless in Scotland. 🍻😂

@knucklesskinner253 2 года назад

I KNOW THIS ONE!!! The electro archon was fighting a great evil serpent, so with her Musou no Hitotachi, she split the serpent AND the land in two. You can still feel the energy in that area known as balethunder

@connielred 2 года назад

Genshin Impact player spotted!

@mikeball6182 5 месяцев назад

I had a motorbike like that. Cheap knock-off.

@bobmetzger51 5 месяцев назад

From a geologist.... spot on explanation. Well said.

@hoon_sol 5 месяцев назад

So it's your fault, eh?

@larsrons7937 19 дней назад

@hoon_sol If he's Scottish it's his fault too.

@julianshepherd2038 4 месяца назад

I live beside it but it is under sea water in the Cromarty Firth. V useful for submarines, cruise liners, oil rigs, things to put windturbines on and attached to the sea bed, huge cable laying ships and other strange craft.

@Mythbuster3808 2 года назад

Greetings from Scotland

@scottishrc7857 2 года назад

Awright ma man

@pollenbuckets6992 2 года назад

I live in Scotland and I didn’t know this

@scottishrc7857 2 года назад

Same!

@Xenoyer 5 месяцев назад

That's pretty cool! My ancestors were Pict. I always wondered about that line.

@_jacobgreen_4849 5 месяцев назад

Very interesting, great video! 🎉

@Cervando 2 года назад

Furthermore, the Scottish lochs are so deep they hold over 90% of the UK's fresh water. Loch Ness alone has more than all of England and Wales put together.

@Cervando 2 года назад

@anon anon The rain 🌧️

@audie-cashstack-uk4881 5 месяцев назад

Only because us English allow it

@tombartram7384 5 месяцев назад

They're natural lakes too. Most lakes in England and Wales are reservoirs.

@Cervando 5 месяцев назад

@@audie-cashstack-uk4881 How exactly do we English allow it? Last time I checked weather control wasn't one of our abilities?

@scottishemu159 5 месяцев назад

@@audie-cashstack-uk4881what????? What you gonna do drain our lochs???

@Pusher97 2 года назад

The tectonic plates be like, “You take the high road and I’ll take the low”

@RichO1701e 2 года назад

I understood that reference!

@marbleman52 2 года назад

Pusher _13...."and I'll be in Scotland....or Appalachia...before ye..." LOL..!!

@Pusher97 2 года назад

@@marbleman52 On the bonnie bonnie banks of Loch Lomond 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

@marbleman52 2 года назад

@@Pusher97 Yes...!! My father's mother was a Mcneill ( one "L", or two; not sure now ). There is or used to be a popular plaid design called the Mcneill Plaid.

@whatabouttheearth 2 года назад

@@marbleman52 Weren't the McNeils in the Chattan Confederacy with the Davidson's?