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P number: P000917
Old photograph number: D02611
Caption: Woodend, Carstairs. Lanarkshire. Esker system. Looking north along the Carstairs esker system which comprises a group of steep-sided ridges extending over about 5 km.
Description: Woodend, Carstairs. Lanarkshire. Esker system. Looking north along the Carstairs esker system which comprises a group of steep-sided ridges extending over about 5 km. In the north these abut the flat peat-covered area forming Carnwath Moss (middle distance). The ridges merge to the north into a more moundy topography probably representing outwash deposits of the sub-ice streams. Eskers are long sinuous, narrow crested ridges that consist of sands and gravels laid down by glacial meltwater. Eskers formed at the retreating edge of a glacier or in a subglacial or englacial tunnel.
Date taken: Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1978
Photographer: Bennett, A.
Copyright statement: NERC
Acknowledgment: This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
X longitude/easting: 296700
Y latitude/northing: 641800
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 270.64 KB; 1000 x 787 pixels; 85 x 67 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 208 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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