| P number: | P002718 |
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| Old photograph number: | D01194 |
| Caption: | Quinag, looking west from one mile south-east of Newton, Sutherland. |
| Description: | One of the isolated mountains that gives rise to the 'inselberg' or 'island mountain' terrain. There has been two suggestions as to how these isolated mountains formed, 1. The result of scarp retreat and pedimentation during the Tertiary with ice-sheets modifying the the pre-existing land surface and 2. The Torridonian sandstone was breached during the Quaternary, most likey by glacial erosion. Typical Torridonian sandstone mountain, one of a line of hills that are the erosional remnants of a once continuous cover of Torridonian and Cambrian rocks. The two massive butresses of Sail Gorm and Sail Garbh dominate this view. |
| Date taken: | Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1968 |
| Photographer: | Christie, A. |
| Copyright statement: | NERC |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 224100 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 930300 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 194.24 KB; 1000 x 785 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 208 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Landforms, mountains and hills |
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