| P number: | P000861 |
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| Old photograph number: | D02427 |
| Caption: | Stac Polly (Stac Pollaidh), Cul Mor, Suilven, Canisp, Quinag. |
| Description: | The landscape is typical of the north-western Highlands. A very ancient Lewisian gneiss basement (granulite facies gneiss, c. 2700 Ma. old) formed a rocky undulating land surface onto which there was a great deposition of Torridonian sandstones and grits in a semi-arid environment at c. 1000-800 Ma. After a very long period of erosion and glaciation, this essentially stable foreland consists of massive isolated mountains called inselbergs separated by wide expanses of lower-lying undulating areas. A fine panorama of most of the mountains of the Assynt district which are relicts of reddish-brown Torridonian sandstone and conglomerate resting unconformably on an irregular basement of Lewisian gneiss. View northwards. |
| 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: | 211500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 911500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Portrait |
| Size: | 290.75 KB; 990 x 1000 pixels; 84 x 85 mm (print at 300 DPI); 262 x 265 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Best of BGS Images/ Landscapes |
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