Moine Thrust Belt

Moine Thrust is a geological ceiling thrust in the north of Scotland. It is about 180 km long and extends from the south of the Isle of Skye to Loch Eriboll in Northeast Sutherland. The name is derived from a'Mhoine, the name of Moor in North Sutherland.

The Moine Thrust was before 410-430 million years ago during the Caledonian orogeny by the thrust of European to American crust. The thrust zone is several kilometers wide and separates a tectonically stressed recognizable metamorphic gneiss ( Lewisian Gneiss ) of the position it over the Neoproterozoic Moine sediments ends Supergroup in the southeast of the Neoproterozoic and Cambro - Ordovician rocks in the northwest.

The Moine Thrust in 1907 was ever identified as the first thrust belt.

In Geopark Knockan Crag, about 20 km north of Ullapool, the thrust can be visited in a geological event. A small visitor center provides an overview of the geological situation, short hiking trails lead to the disruption.