P number: | P000602 |
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Old photograph number: | D01505 |
Caption: | Cliffs of Marwick Head, West Mainland, Orkney with the Kitchener Memorial on the cliff top. The cliffs are formed of the Old Red Sandstone Upper Stromness Flags, (now called Upper Caithness Flags). |
Description: | Cliffs of Marwick Head, West Mainland, Orkney with the Kitchener Memorial on the cliff top. The cliffs are formed of the Old Red Sandstone Upper Stromness Flags, (now called Upper Caithness Flags). The westerly-dipping rocks consist of a blue-grey flaggy rhythmic sequence of fish-bed laminate-mudstone, siltstone and fine-grained sandstone. The beds show coarsening-upward lacustrine units two to ten metres thick. |
Date taken: | 01/01/1974 |
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: | 322600 |
Y latitude/northing: | 1025200 |
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
Orientation: | Landscape |
Size: | 325.34 KB; 1000 x 782 pixels; 85 x 66 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 207 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Geological structures |
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