The Wishing Stone in Morvern is formed from a dyke that intruded into surrounding rocks around 60 million years ago. The surrounding rock has since eroded away leaving the dyke as boulder like outcrop. The dyke has a large angular hole in the centre and has many joints within its…
Geological Attractions in Lochaber
A stunning walk to the vitrified iron-aged fort at Shielfoot Torr. A secret journey through ancient oak woodlands to the knife edge ridge with stunning views over The River Shiel and beyond.
The route to the fortifactions on Shielfoot Torr passes through some lovely deciduous ancient…
An interesting walk to a an impressive waterfall, named in honour of Alfred, Lord Tennyson who was a regular visitor to Old Ardtornish House in the 19th century. The route follows a track along the shores of Loch Aline, passing by an old lime kiln, before ascending the lower flanks of Goirtein…
An amazing display of glaciated slabs approximately 4km west of Glenfinnan The ancient metamorphic rocks belong to the Glenfinnan Group and consist of interbanded psmammites and pelites. Deformation of the Moine rocks is evident in the form of faulting and folding. The rocks…
The Ballachulish Slate Quarry cuts into a large deposit of Ballachulish Slate Formation (Graphitic Pelite) formed during the Precambrian about 800 million years ago, following low grade metamorphism of very fine grained mud shales (containing iron pyrite) . The shales are part of the…
The Treasures of the Earth contains one of the largest private collections of crystals and gemstones in Europe, as well as a fine collection of marine fossils.
The collections is housed in a copper-roofed museum with a short section of narrow gauged railway line with mine tubs from a…
Lochaber ranks as one of the best regions in Scotland’s for geodiversity. Its complex geological history has involved ancient plate collisions and mountain building episodes, plate rifting and vulcanism and more recently, a major glaciations event. Lochaber, together with the…
Lochaber is renowned for its geodiversity manifest in exceptional geomorphology and a variety of rock types. Such features are the outcome of a long and turbulent history involving collision of continental plates, mountain building, a series of volcanic eruptions, glaciation events and sea level…
