| P number: | P001872 |
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| Old photograph number: | C00187 |
| Caption: | View from Glen Calvie, looking south towards Carn Chuinneag, Ross & Cromarty. A hill chiefly of granitic gneisses, part of the augen-gneiss igneous complex. |
| Description: | View from Glen Calvie, looking south towards Carn Chuinneag, Ross & Cromarty. A hill chiefly of granitic gneisses, part of the augen-gneiss igneous complex. Hill in background is Carn Chuinneag, made of granite intruded into the Moine Supergroup rocks before the Caledonian orogeny, and folded and metamorphosed to gneiss along with the Moine rocks. The smooth rounded shape of the mountain is typical of main granite mountains. The bedrock is largely obscured by a regolith of frost-shattered blocks of granitic gneiss, mostly formed during the Loch Lomond Stadial 10,000-11,000 years ago, when periglacial conditions prevailed. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
| Photographer: | Lunn, R. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 246500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 885000 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 199.66 KB; 1000 x 720 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 190 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Igneous features/ Bosses and laccoliths |
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