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Great Glen

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Great Glen
n
(Placename) the. a fault valley across the whole of Scotland, extending southwest from the Moray Firth in the east to Loch Linnhe and containing Loch Ness and Loch Lochy Also called Glen More Glen Albyn


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It lies atop the Great Glen fault, which generates three or four moderate earthquakes each century, says Luigi Piccardi, a structural geologist at the Center for the Study of the Geology of the Apennines in Florence.
Cut off from the north by the Great Glen, the west by mountains and fringed by the sea, the county has always been rather remote, now no less than in prehistoric times, since when its rolling surface of forest and fields has been continuously and profitably farmed.
 
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