No wifi last night, so, sorry that didn’t go. But we are in the same hotel for three nights, and I will figure out how to post. 

Today we saw amazing geology, and I will post pictures, but what I think most of you will be interested in is the people we have met on this journey. But I don’t have pictures of them. 😦

Geology and pictures first.

We visited the Moine Thrust. That is a bit ambiguous because the thrust area is several hundred km in area. But it is important to geology because it was the first area where people figured out how older rocks could be above younger rocks.

The idea is so non-intuitive that it took the scientific community a long time to agree that this is an area of crustal shortening, that a 55 km distance has been squished to 5 km. This is associated with rock parts being deformed from their original symmetrical shapes into elongated shapes.

Spectacular!

The sheep thought so, too.

These guys have to deal with the steep topography, like we geologists do. They have made paths in the steeper parts of their fields that go sub-parallel to horizontal, just like many human cities have done.

It was more impressive in real life.

I am feeling sleepy. I will try for more about our new friends in the morning.

Good night.

• Scotland Geotrip