| P number: | P000882 |
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| Old photograph number: | D02533 |
| Caption: | Oblique aerial view of The Storr from the south-east over Bearreraig Bay, Skye. Tertiary lavas forming cliffs in background. Landslip features in the Jurassic sediments in the middle distance. |
| Description: | Oblique aerial view of The Storr from the south-east over Bearreraig Bay, Skye. Tertiary lavas forming cliffs in background. Landslip features in the Jurassic sediments in the middle distance. The Trotternish peninsula is traversed throughout most of its length by this high ridge of the lava escarpment. To the east of this escarpment along its whole length lies the most extensive landslip in Britain. Great columns of lava and Jurassic sedimentary rocks. In late Tertiary times the lava plateau was tilted slightly to the west and was considerably broken up with faulting. As a result of this an unstable structure was created, the lower half of the cliff was composed of Jurassic sediments and dolerite sill while the upper half was composed of great thicknesses of lava flows. This caused the extensive landslipping with the sediments tending to slide under the weight of the super-incumbent lavas. |
| Date taken: | Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1977 |
| 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: | 153000 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 853000 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 256.95 KB; 993 x 1000 pixels; 84 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 263 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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