| P number: | P000014 |
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| Old photograph number: | C01089 |
| Caption: | Easdale Island. Argyllshire. Easdale Slate quarry in 'Black Slate Group'. |
| Description: | Easdale Island. Argyllshire. Easdale Slate quarry in 'Black Slate Group'. The cleavage dips steeply from left to right, and the bedding is almost indistinguishable (the working faces are mainly cleavage planes, the wrinkling on the latter being due to an incipient strain-slip cleavage). Note the two cranes and two railway trucks and the railway lines on the middle level. Other slate belts in Scotland where quarrying occurred are restricted to the Grampian Highlands; they include the Ballachulish belt in the Ballachulish Slates; the Highland Border belt in the Aberfoyle Slates, extending from north Arran to Dunkeld then Stonehaven; and the Banff-Aberdeen belts in the Macduff Slates and less important outcrops near Dufftown, Keith and Tomintoul. |
| Date taken: | Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1904 |
| Photographer: | Lunn, R. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 173500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 717500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 269.54 KB; 726 x 1000 pixels; 61 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 192 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Images from the archives, Geoscience subjects/ Economic geology/ Slates |
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