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Southern Uplands and other geographical areas of Scotland The hills around Durisdeer from the A702 road Looking east across Nithsdale to the Lowther Hills – from Cairnkinna in the Scaur Hills Grey Mare's Tail in the Moffat Hills from the Bodesbeck Ridge in the Ettrick Hills Source of the River Clyde where the Daer Water meets the Potrail Water From Hart Fell looking west to the Devil's Beef Tub.
The Southern Uplands Fault (or occasionally Southern Upland Fault) [1] is a fault in Scotland that runs from Girvan (or more specifically from the Rhins of Galloway) to Dunbar on the East coast. It marks the southern boundary of the Scottish Midland Valley [ 2 ] and the northern margin of the Southern Uplands ; indeed it is recognised as a ...
Scotland's mountain ranges can be divided in a roughly north to south direction into: the Scottish Highlands, the Central Belt and the Southern Uplands, the latter two primarily belonging to the Scottish Lowlands. The highlands eponymously contains the country's main mountain ranges, but hills and mountains are to be found south of these as ...
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 ...
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]
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Map of the world showing elevation levels. Upland and lowland are portions of a plain that are conditionally categorized by their elevation above the sea level.Lowlands are usually no higher than 200 m (660 ft), while uplands are somewhere around 200 m (660 ft) to 500 m (1,600 ft).
It consists of a rift valley between the Highland Boundary Fault to the north and the Southern Uplands Fault to the south. [2] The Central Lowlands are one of the three main geographical sub-divisions of Scotland, the other two being the Highlands and Islands which lie to the north, northwest and the Southern Uplands , which lie south of the ...