Detail of Glencoul Thrust, Liath Bhad

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View ~SW of the Glencoul Thrust (GT) emplacing Archaean Lewisian Gneisses (LG) over Cambro-Ordovician Durness Limestone (DL). The gneissic foliation is only destroyed by a thrust-related fault rock within a few centimetres of the thrust plane.

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