| P number: | P000493 |
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| Old photograph number: | C02098 |
| Caption: | Site of Rosyth Dock Yard, North Queensferry. Fife Region. A glaciated surface showing striations caused by the rubbing and rasping of rock fragments embedded in the base of a moving glacier. |
| Description: | Site of Rosyth Dock Yard, North Queensferry. Fife Region. A glaciated surface showing striations caused by the rubbing and rasping of rock fragments embedded in the base of a moving glacier. Glaciated surface of sandstone (Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone Series) exposed during removal of the boulder clay, a tongue of which is still seen to the left. Direction of ice-movement right to left, i.e. from west to east. Note the railway steam engine in the distance. |
| 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: | 310500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 682500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 258.00 KB; 1000 x 709 pixels; 85 x 60 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 188 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Landforms, glaciation/ Glaciated surfaces, Geoscience subjects/ Landforms, glaciation/ Glacial striae |
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