| P number: | P000769 |
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| Old photograph number: | D02214 |
| Caption: | Oblique aerial view looking north-west of the island of Staffa. Argyll and Bute. Columnar jointing in Tertiary basaltic volcanic flows. |
| Description: | Oblique aerial view looking north-west of the island of Staffa. Argyll and Bute. Columnar jointing in Tertiary basaltic volcanic flows. The Fingal's Cave lava can be divided into a lower zone of massive regular columns, a middle zone of narrow wavy columns and a top zone of largely slag. The lower part of the cliffs in the photograph is the slaggy top zone overlain by the chilled columnar base of another lava flow. The basalts of Staffa are part of a Tertiary igneous province covering large areas of western Scotland and Northern Ireland. They are part of the initial accumulation of a sub-aerial, thick sequence of basaltic lavas which were followed by the establishment of the major central volcanoes which are now found on Skye, Arran, St. Kilda, Rum, and Ardnamurchan. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1976 |
| 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: | 133500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 735500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 273.82 KB; 997 x 1000 pixels; 84 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 264 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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