glen

Japanese: glen
glen

…The highlands are oriented northeast to southwest, and are divided by the Glen More fault line into the Northwest Highlands and the Grampian Mountains, the latter of which contains the highest peak in the UK, Ben Nevis (1343m). During the Pleistocene glacial period, it was the centre of a regional glacier, and developed glacial landforms called glens (U-shaped valleys), loches (glacial lakes, inlets), and firths (fjords). In contrast, the central lowlands are a huge rift valley about 80km wide, with Devonian and Carboniferous sedimentary rocks forming a geosyncline, but in some places volcanic hills protrude and coal beds are also outcropped. …

*Some of the terminology that mentions "glen" is listed below.

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Japanese:

…高地全体は北東~南西走向を有し,グレン・モアの断層線によって北西高地とグランピアン山脈に区分され,後者の西部にはイギリス最高峰のベン・ネビス山(1343m)が位置する。また洪積世氷期には地域的な氷河の中心となり,グレンglen(U字谷)やロッホloch(氷河湖,入江),ファースfirth(フィヨルド)と呼ばれる氷食地形が発達する。これに対し中央低地は幅約80kmの巨大な地溝帯であり,デボン紀,石炭紀の堆積岩が地向斜をなすが,一部では火山性丘陵が突出し,石炭層の露頭もみられる。…

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