| P number: | P000884 |
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| Old photograph number: | D02535 |
| Caption: | Oblique aerial view of The Storr, Skye. |
| Description: | The sill shows columnar jointing. This landslip is the best known and most spectacular of the Skye landslips. This is a mature stable slip with an angle of rest of 15 degrees. It is entirely post-glacial and its volume and extent is consistent with a pre-slip escarpment about 2000 feet east of its present position. The sill is part of a whole series in the area which were emplaced at some date later than the extrusion of the Tertiary lavas and prior to most of the subsequent faulting and dyke intrusions in the Jurassic strata. The sills are noted for their transgressive nature, i.e. they occasionally cross from bedding plane to bedding plane. A dolerite sill is seen in the foreground intruding Jurassic sediments. From the top of the sill an uneven slope of landslipped material rises up to the crags of The Storr which are formed of flat-lying sheets of Tertiary basaltic lava with a cap of mugearite. |
| 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: | 151500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 853500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 217.77 KB; 980 x 1000 pixels; 83 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 259 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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