| P number: | P001095 |
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| Old photograph number: | D03665 |
| Caption: | Bass Rock from Tantallon Castle. East Lothian. |
| Description: | The rock in the Tantallon Vent is mainly poorly-bedded, green, coarse-grained agglomeratic tuff containing numerous basalt bombs and blocks of bedded tuff. The castle sits on a cliff in green vent agglomerate of Tantallon Vent of the Green Group of the Carboniferous Garleton Hills Volcanic Rocks. Bass Rock is a phonolitic trachyte plug representing solidified magma in the vent of a Carboniferous volcano. |
| Date taken: | Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1985 |
| Photographer: | Bain, T.S. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 359600 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 684800 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 321.08 KB; 1000 x 784 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 207 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Landscapes |
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