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P number:	P000632
Old photograph number:	D01646
Caption:	Channel between Fora Ness and mainland at mouth of Dales Voe at Delting. Shetland. Three tombolos known locally as 'ayres' linking the island of Fora Ness to the mainland. The headland of Lunna Ness is in the background.
Description:	Channel between Fora Ness and mainland at mouth of Dales Voe at Delting. Shetland. Three tombolos known locally as 'ayres' linking the island of Fora Ness to the mainland. The headland of Lunna Ness is in the background. Ayres form across a shallow bay or across a voe, usually near its landward end partly or completely cutting off a sheet of water from the sea. They are composed of a narrow crescentic mound of shingle. Note the seaward ayre still has a channel to the sea while the one in the foreground is a complete barrier. Tombolos are a feature of a drowning coastline.
Date taken:	Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1973
Photographer:	Pulsford, J.M.
Copyright statement:	NERC
Acknowledgment:	This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
X longitude/easting:	444600
Y latitude/northing:	1172300
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code:	27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation:	Landscape
Size:	221.33 KB; 1000 x 784 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 207 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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Categories:	Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Landforms, marine/ Coastal deposition, sand-bars, shingle-ridges, storm-beaches

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