| P number: | P000348 |
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| Old photograph number: | B00929 |
| Caption: | Salisbury Craigs (Salisbury Crags), Arthur's Seat. Midlothian. Sill of teschenite overlying Upper Old Red Sandstone and marls, giving rise to escarpment and talus of debris. |
| Description: | Salisbury Craigs (Salisbury Crags), Arthur's Seat. Midlothian. Sill of teschenite overlying Upper Old Red Sandstone and marls, giving rise to escarpment and talus of debris. The sill, a tabular minor intrusion of igneous rock injected between, and more or less parallel to, the bedding of the surrounding rocks. The nineteenth century saw much quarrying of the sill for paving the streets of London. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/1913 |
| 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: | 326500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 672500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 154.36 KB; 1000 x 738 pixels; 85 x 62 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 195 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Igneous features/ Sills, Geoscience subjects/ General views/ Igneous rock country |
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