P number: | P000564 |
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Old photograph number: | D00304 |
Caption: | St. Magnus Bay. Shetland Isles. Showing the vertical jointing of the Ronas Hill Granite producing the vertical walls of the Heads of Grocken and the Drongs. |
Description: | St. Magnus Bay. Shetland Isles. Showing the vertical jointing of the Ronas Hill Granite producing the vertical walls of the Heads of Grocken and the Drongs. The granite is a later stage intrusion of the Devonian Northmaven Plutonic Complex. It is thought that the 160 metre deep bay has been overdeepened by glacial action; others have suggested that the deep bay may represent earlier meteorite impact craters that have been cleared out by ice during the Pleistocene. |
Date taken: | Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1961 |
Photographer: | Fisher, W.D. |
Copyright statement: | Crown |
Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
X longitude/easting: | 427500 |
Y latitude/northing: | 1177500 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 116.32 KB; 1000 x 769 pixels; 85 x 65 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 203 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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