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P number: P001114
Old photograph number: D03689
Caption: Pentland Hills (Turnhouse to West Kip). From south-west slope of Castlelaw Hill looking up the Logan Valley, with Glencorse Reservoir in foreground and Loganlea Reservoir in distance.
Description: Pentland Hills (Turnhouse to West Kip). From south-west slope of Castlelaw Hill looking up the Logan Valley, with Glencorse Reservoir in foreground and Loganlea Reservoir in distance. Hills (left to right): Turnhouse Hill (basalt and andesite on slope, rhyolite tuff and rhyolite on summit), Carnethy Hill (ditto), Scald Law (basalt, andesite on north-west slope, rhyolite tuff and trachyte on top), East and West Kip Hill (all basalt and andesite), basaltic tuff forms the valley in the foreground. The present topographic pattern of the Pentland Hills was initiated in the Tertiary and later modified by the Pleistocene glaciation.
Date taken: Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 BST 1986
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: 322000
Y latitude/northing: 664400
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Portrait
Size: 210.87 KB; 775 x 1000 pixels; 66 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 205 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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