| P number: | P001179 |
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| Old photograph number: | D04631 |
| Caption: | The Five Sisters of Kintail from above Ratagan. Skye & Lochalsh district. |
| Description: | The main ridge from left to right, Sgurr nan Saighead, Sgurr Fhuaran, Sgurr na Carnach and Sgurr na Ciste Duibhe is composed of Moine metasedimentary rocks either psammites or mixed psammite and semipelite. The foreground is underlain by the quartz monzonite, the core of the pluton. The Ratagain complex is important in the context of Caledonian magmatism in that it represents a link or transition between characteristics of the 'Newer Granites' and the alkaline contemporaneous magmatism in the North-west Highlands. Ratagan is in the lower left corner, Shiel Bridge left of centre at the mouth of the river. The foreground is part of the Ratagain plutonic complex while the mountains are composed of Moine psammites and pelites, metamorphosed sedimentary rocks. |
| Date taken: | Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1990 |
| 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: | 197500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 815500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 242.77 KB; 1000 x 799 pixels; 85 x 68 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 211 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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