| P number: | P001677 |
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| Old photograph number: | B00084 |
| Caption: | General view of Beinn Eighe from Meall a' Ghiubhais, west of Kinlochewe, Ross & Cromarty. Looking south. Panorama with B00082 and B00083. |
| Description: | A mountain formed by the thrusting and folding of Torridon Sandstone and Cambrian strata. Unconformable junction of Cambrian quartzite and Torridon Sandstone. In this area there is no basal thrust at the western margin of the Moine thrust belt. Instead, the 'foreland' rocks are folded into broad open folds with north-south axes, and cut by minor thrusts following the axial planes of the anticlines. Most of Ruadh-stac Beag (left) is made of folded Eriboll Sandstone, repeated by thrusts, forming extensive screes. Behind and to the right, on Ruadh-stac Mor, the rocks are unfolded. The Torridonian Applecross Formation sandstones (dark) form the lower part of the mountain. These are overlain unconformably (although the angular unconformity is not visible in this view) by quartzites of the Lower Cambrian Eriboll Sandstone formation (pale). A small outlier of mudstone and sandstone of the An t-Sron Formation (previously known as 'Fucoid beds' and 'Serpulite Grit') occurs on the summit. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1891 |
| 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: | 195200 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 861100 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 168.65 KB; 1000 x 759 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 201 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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