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- Ochil_Fault abstract "The Ochil Fault is the geological feature which defines the southern edge of the Ochil Hills escarpment, Scotland.North of the fault, Devonian lava flows and pyroclastic deposits slope gently down, thinning towards the north. These are in part overlain by Old Red Sandstone rocks formed later in the Devonian period. Because the deposits thin towards the north, and there are few signs of volcanic necks within the Ochil Hills themselves, it is thought that the eruptive centres were south of the fault, however these are buried deep beneath the Carboniferous rocks including coal measures which are found beneath the low-lying carse lands to the south.To put this in perspective, the prominent hill Dumyat which defines the western extremity of the Ochil Hills has a height of 418 metres. The nearest colliery, Manor Powis, approximately 2 km south of the fault, was approximately the same depth, in carse land that is scarcely above sea level, and was mining coal from Carboniferous strata at least many hundreds of metres above the top of the Devonian deposits. The Ochil Fault must have been active from the earliest part of the Carboniferous period, allowing the marine swamps in which the coal-producing vegetation flourished to be periodically overlain by layers of sand, forming sandstone, or silt, forming shale, in a number of cyclic subsidences. These occurred in the form of basins, and the pattern of movements was complex, however it is known that the greatest vertical movement was centred about 1 km east of the town of Alva, and almost certainly exceeded 5 km vertically. The deepest deposits of coal measures are obviously found in this region, but surprisingly this has not been mined, probably due to the great depth involved.The point of maximum downwards movement south of the fault lies just south of the Silver Glen, which happens to be the part of the Ochil Hills where the greatest extent of mineralisation has been discovered. The minerals, including ores of silver and cobalt, were probably emplaced by hydrothermal solutions percolating upwards through various minor faults and fractures, in the Tertiary period.The Ochil Fault remained active throughout geological time, and some later movements allowed intrusive eruptions of diorite or quartz-dolerite to rise at various places along its length. One such intrusion was until recently quarried for roadstone at Tillicoultry.Modern movements of the fault are very minor but occasionally give rise to discernible earthquakes, particularly in the village of Menstrie, and the town of Tillicoultry. However the latter may be easily confused with the collapse of old room and pillar coal mine workings which undoubtedly underlie the southern part of the town.The Ochil Fault is one of Britain's finest examples of a fault line scarp, and can be best appreciated from vantage points such as the Wallace Monument near Stirling.".
- Ochil_Fault thumbnail Ochils1.jpg?width=300.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageID "3304136".
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageLength "3519".
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageOutDegree "36".
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageRevisionID "668020123".
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Carboniferous.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Carse.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Carse_land.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Category:Escarpments_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Category:Geology_of_Scotland.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Category:Hills_of_the_Scottish_Midland_Valley.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Category:Landforms_of_Stirling_(council_area).
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Category:Mountains_and_hills_of_Clackmannanshire.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Coal_measures.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Coal_mining.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Cobalt.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Colliery.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Devonian.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Diorite.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Dumyat.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Fault_(geology).
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Fault_line.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink File:Ochils1.jpg.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Geologic_fault.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Intrusion.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Intrusive.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Lava.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Menstrie.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Ochil_Hills.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Pyroclastic.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Pyroclastic_rock.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Quartz-dolerite.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Scotland.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Silver.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Silver_Glen.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Stirling.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Tertiary.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Tillicoultry.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLink Wallace_Monument.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageWikiLinkText "Ochil Fault".
- Ochil_Fault hasPhotoCollection Ochil_Fault.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Coord.
- Ochil_Fault wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Unreferenced.
- Ochil_Fault subject Category:Escarpments_of_the_United_Kingdom.
- Ochil_Fault subject Category:Geology_of_Scotland.
- Ochil_Fault subject Category:Hills_of_the_Scottish_Midland_Valley.
- Ochil_Fault subject Category:Landforms_of_Stirling_(council_area).
- Ochil_Fault subject Category:Mountains_and_hills_of_Clackmannanshire.
- Ochil_Fault hypernym Feature.
- Ochil_Fault point "56.16 -3.746".
- Ochil_Fault type Article.
- Ochil_Fault type Work.
- Ochil_Fault type Article.
- Ochil_Fault type Landform.
- Ochil_Fault type SpatialThing.
- Ochil_Fault comment "The Ochil Fault is the geological feature which defines the southern edge of the Ochil Hills escarpment, Scotland.North of the fault, Devonian lava flows and pyroclastic deposits slope gently down, thinning towards the north. These are in part overlain by Old Red Sandstone rocks formed later in the Devonian period.".
- Ochil_Fault label "Ochil Fault".
- Ochil_Fault sameAs m.094h6p.
- Ochil_Fault sameAs Q7076323.
- Ochil_Fault sameAs Q7076323.
- Ochil_Fault lat "56.16".
- Ochil_Fault long "-3.746".
- Ochil_Fault wasDerivedFrom Ochil_Fault?oldid=668020123.
- Ochil_Fault depiction Ochils1.jpg.
- Ochil_Fault isPrimaryTopicOf Ochil_Fault.