P number: | P001098 |
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Old photograph number: | D03668 |
Caption: | The Knock, vent and plugs, Largs, from the south. Ayrshire. One of four basaltic vents cutting the Devonian and Carboniferous sediments beneath the volcanic rocks and in the area south of the Clyde. |
Description: | The Knock, vent and plugs, Largs, from the south. Ayrshire. One of four basaltic vents cutting the Devonian and Carboniferous sediments beneath the volcanic rocks and in the area south of the Clyde. A Lower Carboniferous age vent of agglomerate with a central plug of Dunsapie-type olivine-basalt, intruded into Upper Devonian sediments. The body of basaltic tuff and agglomerate has a diameter of about 400 m. and contains sandstone blocks. |
Date taken: | Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1985 |
Photographer: | McTaggart, F.I. |
Copyright statement: | NERC |
Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
X longitude/easting: | 220300 |
Y latitude/northing: | 661900 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 291.53 KB; 1000 x 790 pixels; 85 x 67 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 209 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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