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P number: P001915
Old photograph number: C01365
Caption: Creag a' Chalamain, Lairig Ghru, 10 km. south-east of Aviemore, Inverness-shire. V-shaped dry rock-gully (overflow channel across watershed). Tabular weathering along parallel joints in granite.
Description: Creag a' Chalamain, Lairig Ghru, 10 km. south-east of Aviemore, Inverness-shire. V-shaped dry rock-gully (overflow channel across watershed). Tabular weathering along parallel joints in granite. Pink biotite granite belonging to Main Phase of the Cairngorm pluton, with widely-spaced vertical joints and closely-spaced later horizontal joints formed by pressure relief during unroofing well seen on cliffs to left. Overflow channel at a high level probably formed when ice sheet covered land surface, and etched into rock as ice sheet decayed.
Date taken: Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1910
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: 297500
Y latitude/northing: 799500
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 279.88 KB; 1001 x 717 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 190 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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Categories: Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Landforms, weathering/ Rock weathering, Geoscience subjects/ Landforms, weathering/ Weathering along bedding. Joints, cleavage, Geoscience subjects/ Landforms, glaciation/ Overflow and marginal channels  

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