| P number: | P000585 |
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| Old photograph number: | D01262 |
| Caption: | The Eildon Hills, near Melrose, from the north-west. Roxburghshire. The hills are the denuded remains of a composite laccolith of trachyte rocks intruded into the Upper Old Red Sandstone in Carboniferous times. |
| Description: | The Eildon Hills, near Melrose, from the north-west. Roxburghshire. The hills are the denuded remains of a composite laccolith of trachyte rocks intruded into the Upper Old Red Sandstone in Carboniferous times. A range of slightly different trachytic rock types has been intruded sheet by sheet to give the appearance of being stratified. Similar rocks as dykes or irregular elongate igneous bodies with a north-easterly orientation are found close by e.g. White Law, Cauldshiels Hill and Bowden Moor. A laccolith is an intrusive dome-like mass of igneous rock which arches the overlying sediments and has a flat floor. If there have been several phases of emplacement of different materials then it is said to be composite. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1970 |
| Photographer: | Christie, A. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 355500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 633500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 203.70 KB; 1000 x 675 pixels; 85 x 57 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 179 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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