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P number: P002205
Old photograph number: C01980
Caption: Shore at Kintradwell, 4.0 km. north of Brora, Sutherland. The Jurassic Helmsdale Boulder Bed. Angular blocks of Middle Old Red Sandstone resting on and partly embedded in contorted Jurassic mudstone.
Description: Shore at Kintradwell, 4.0 km. north of Brora, Sutherland. The Jurassic Helmsdale Boulder Bed. Angular blocks of Middle Old Red Sandstone resting on and partly embedded in contorted Jurassic mudstone. At the time of deposition of the boulder bed there was an active fault scarp of gently dipping Middle Old Red Sandstone with a very shallow water cover. Due to the instability of the slope (and possible seismic activity along the fault) falls of large masses of Middle Old Red Sandstone would occur down the scarp and particularly concentrated in gullies, The debris would fall on the deeper water fine sediments, now mudstones and shales creating disruption of the bedding as in the photograph.
Date taken: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1914
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: 192500
Y latitude/northing: 807500
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 267.36 KB; 1000 x 721 pixels; 85 x 61 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 191 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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