| P number: | P000855 |
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| Old photograph number: | D02421 |
| Caption: | Ben Hope. Sutherland. The overgrown escarpment is formed by flaggy, micaceous Moine schist which dips gently towards the base of Ben Hope. Alluvium and peat fill the low foreground. View looking east. |
| Description: | Ben Hope. Sutherland. The overgrown escarpment is formed by flaggy, micaceous Moine schist which dips gently towards the base of Ben Hope. Alluvium and peat fill the low foreground. View looking east. Bands of garnetiferous Lewisian gneiss and amphibolite traverse the face of Ben Hope about half-way up, above the screes. Above these bands lies more flaggy, micaceous Moine schist. Note the very well-developed gully erosion. The Moine Succession, named after the peninsula of a' Mhoine (the Peat Bog) in northern Sutherland is a group of metasedimentary strata the oldest of which were deposited on a Lewisian basement between 1500 and 1025 Ma. ago. Its youngest members are thought to be c. 700 Ma. old. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1975 |
| 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: | 247500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 950500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 339.01 KB; 994 x 1000 pixels; 84 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 263 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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