Why There's a Straight Line Through Scotland

If you take a look at a map of Scotland, you'll notice an eerily straight line running through the highlands, this is the Great Glen Fault the product of half a billion years of time and geology. Hosted by: Stefan ChinSciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org----------Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow----------Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever:Chris Peters, Matt Curls, Kevin Bealer, Jeffrey Mckishen, Jacob, Christopher R Boucher, Nazara, charles george, Christoph Schwanke, Ash, Silas Emrys, KatieMarie Magnone, Eric Jensen, Adam Brainard, Piya Shedden, Alex Hackman, James Knight, GrowingViolet, Sam Lutfi, Alisa Sherbow, Jason A Saslow, Dr. Melvin Sanicas----------Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet?Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishowTwitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishowTumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.comInstagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow----------Sources:https://earthquake.usgs.gov/learn/glossary/?term=strike-slip https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Plate-Tectonics/Chap4-Plate-Tectonics-of-the-UK/Caledonian-Orogeney https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/1998TC900033 https://www.geo.fu-berlin.de/en/geol/fachrichtungen/geologie/mitarbeiter_neu/Professoren/elinelebreton/LeBreton-etal_13_GGF.pdf https://www.researchgate.net/publication/258616891_Cenozoic_reactivation_of_the_Great_Glen_Fault_Scotland_additional_evidence_and_possible_causes https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17445647.2013.866369 https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdfdirect/10.1029/1998TC900033https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/ks3/gsl/education/resources/rockcycle/page3585.htmlhttps://www.usgs.gov/science-support/osqi/youth-education-science/cenozoichttps://www.gsi.ie/en-ie/geoscience-topics/geology/Pages/Geology-of-Ireland.aspxhttps://www.rte.ie/brainstorm/2018/0315/947589-ireland-on-ice-how-the-ice-age-influenced-our-placenames/https://www.geolsoc.org.uk/Policy-and-Media/Outreach/Plate-Tectonic-Stories/Great-Glen-Faulthttps://courses.lumenlearning.com/suny-earthscience/chapter/tectonic-stress-and-geologic-structures-2/https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/plate-tectonicshttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Glen#/media/File:Great_Glen_Project_Station_M_-_geograph.org.uk_-_818230.jpghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Great_Glen_Fault_map.pnghttps://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Scotland_from_satellite.jpg