| P number: | P002585 |
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| Old photograph number: | D00022 |
| Caption: | View looking westwards from the Esplanade, Stirling Castle over the Carse of Stirling, to the Touch Hills formed by eastward-dipping lavas of Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone age, Stirlingshire. |
| Description: | View looking westwards from the Esplanade, Stirling Castle over the Carse of Stirling, to the Touch Hills formed by eastward-dipping lavas of Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone age, Stirlingshire. The flat low-lying Carse formed in postglacial times c. 8500-5500 years ago when the area underwent a marine transgression and a series of marine and estuarine silts, the Carse Clays, were deposited in conditions thought to resemble tidal flats. Subsequently the sea has receded again. The lavas of the Touch Hills are dominantly olivine-basalts. Note trap-features on the escarpment at the northern edge of the hills. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1956 |
| Photographer: | Fisher, W.D. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 278500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 694500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 137.52 KB; 1000 x 756 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 200 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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