| P number: | P002881 |
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| Old photograph number: | D05065 |
| Caption: | Loch Tarff, Fort Augustus. |
| Description: | Loch Tarff, Fort Augustus. View looking south-west across Loch Tarff to Borlum Hill on the south-east flank of the Great glen above Fort Augustus. Most of the bedrock within this view comprises metasedimentary rocks of theTarff Banded Formation. This formation is assigned the Precambrian age (c. 900 million years old) Grampian Group (Moine), within the Central Highland block of the Scottish Caledonides. These metasedimentary rocks have been subjected to two tectonometamorphic events during the Knoydartian (c. 800-850 million years ago) and Caledonian (c.470-450 million years ago) at levels of c. 20km in the earth's crust. The landforms seen here reflect the effects of the Main Late Devensian glaciation (18000 years before present), and the structural control of bedrock during this glacial event. Loch Tarff occupies an area of moundy glaciofluvial deposits, and is one of the few Highland lochs to contain Arctic Char. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1995 |
| 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: | 242900 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 810200 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 193.71 KB; 677 x 1000 pixels; 57 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 179 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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