P number: | P530936 |
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Caption: | Detail of entrance to St. Mary's Cathedral, Palmerston Place, Edinburgh, Lothian Region. |
Description: | The image is a detail of the main entrance showing column of polished Shap Granite from Cumbria, England, adjacent to sandstone. The Shap Granite has long been used as a decorative stone and is widely known throughout Britain. It is a coarse-grained igneous rock with a strong reddish brown colour and contains distinctive large crystals of pink-orange alkali feldspar. Granite is a very hard and durable rock, made of interlocking crystals of different minerals. The most common minerals in granite are quartz, feldspar and mica. |
Date taken: | Sun Jun 25 00:00:00 GMT 1905 |
Photographer: | Unknown |
Copyright statement: | Unknown |
Orientation: | Portrait |
Size: | 240.46 KB; 667 x 1000 pixels; 56 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 176 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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