| P number: | P000476 |
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| Old photograph number: | C01902 |
| Caption: | Eathie shore at the Eathie Fishing Station, 4.8 km. south of Cromarty. Ross & Cromarty. Escarpment along the line of the Great Glen Fault Zone forming old sea cliff of the 25 ft. raised beach. |
| Description: | Eathie shore at the Eathie Fishing Station, 4.8 km. south of Cromarty. Ross & Cromarty. Escarpment along the line of the Great Glen Fault Zone forming old sea cliff of the 25 ft. raised beach. In middle distance the cliff is of boulder clay filling a preglacial hollow cut in sandstones and shales of Middle Old Red Sandstone age. Vegetation covered scree covers the lower parts of the old cliff. Note the fisherman's huts and the nets hung up to dry. Eathie was a favourite haunt of Hugh Miller, geologist and stonemason of Cromarty. The Great Glen Fracture Zone is the most important north-east -south-west trending fault in a group that initiated in the Caledonian period of tectonic activity. The zone once established has been reactivated during subsequent periods of earth movement; and is still active today. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1913 |
| 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: | 277500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 863500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 241.21 KB; 1000 x 732 pixels; 85 x 62 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 194 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Structural features/ Fault scarps |
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