So great has been the disturbance in the region of thrusting that in some places, as in the neighborhood of Loch Kishorn and elsewhere, the rocks have been completely overturned and the ancient gneiss has been piled upon the Torridonian.
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The evidence is centred on Ullapool, a harbour town on Loch Broom in the Ross and Cromarty district of the ejecta field has been traced, some 50 km across, forming the Stac Fada member within the Stoer Group of the Torridonian.
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It is part of the Moine Thrust Belt and is typical of many of the Assynt hills in that it rises from a base of Lewisian Gneiss and is composed of Torridonian sandstone capped by Cambrian quartzite giving the hill a distinctive light grey crown.
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The quartzite, and the Torridonian sandstone which makes up many of the other mountains in the area, have been dissected by rivers and glaciers, leaving a series of isolated peaks, such as Suilven, Quinag and Stac Pollaidh, standing above the " knock and lochan " landscape of small hills and lakes that is typical of the Lewisian gneiss.
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