Scottish Highlands

:This article pertains to the geographic region of the Scottish Highlands. See Highlander for alternate meanings

Geology

The Highlands consist of an old dissected plateau, or block, of ancient crystalline rocks with incised valleys and lochs carved by the action of mountain streams and by ice, the resulting topography being a wide area of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have nearly the same height above sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places.

Related Topics:
Plateau - Crystalline - Loch - Topography - Denudation

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