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Highlights from a North West Highlands Geopark Tour

Highlights from a North West Highlands Geopark Tour

Nerd alert! After six days of geology in the northernmost part of Scotland, I'm a changed person!

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Monica Shaw
Sep 24, 2023
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Suilven, an icon of the northwest highlands, formed of Torridonian Sandstone on top of old Lewisian gneiss

I’m back from a week up north in the Assynt area which proved to be pivotal in more ways than one. I’ll get to all of those pivotal moments in due course, but first I want to share the reason we were there in the first place: geology!

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