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The Southern Uplands consist mainly of Silurian sedimentary deposits deposited in the Iapetus Ocean 420 million years ago. [1] These rocks were pushed up from the sea bed into an accretionary wedge during the Caledonian orogeny, roughly 400 million years ago (), when the continents and terranes of Laurentia, Baltica and Avalonia collided.
There are three main geographical sub-divisions: the Highlands and Islands is a diverse area which lies to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault; the Central Lowlands is a rift valley mainly comprising Palaeozoic formations; and the Southern Uplands, which lie south of the Southern Uplands Fault, are largely composed of Silurian ...
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The Moffat Hills [1] are a range of hills in the Southern Uplands of Scotland. They form a roughly triangular shape with a west facing side, a north facing side, and a south-east facing side. It is 17 kilometres from east to west across this triangle and some 16 kilometres north to south. The highest point is White Coomb at 821 m (2694 ft).
The Galloway Hills are part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland, and form the northern boundary of western Galloway.They lie within the bounds of the Galloway Forest Park, an area of some 300 square miles (800 km 2) of largely uninhabited wild land, managed by Forestry and Land Scotland.
The Highlands were subdivided by the Great Glen and the Lowlands into the fertile Central Lowlands and the Southern Uplands. The Uplands and Highlands had a relatively short growing season, exacerbated by the Little Ice Age, which peaked towards the end of the seventeenth century. A network of roads developed in the Lowlands in this period.
The Southern Upland Way is a 344-kilometre (214 mi) coast-to-coast long-distance footpath in southern Scotland. [2] The route links Portpatrick in the west and Cockburnspath in the east via the hills of the Southern Uplands. [1] The Way is designated as one of Scotland's Great Trails by NatureScot and is the longest of the 29 Great Trails. [1]