| P number: | P001703 |
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| Old photograph number: | B00166 |
| Caption: | Cuillin Hills, looking up Loch Coruisk, Skye, Inverness-shire. Mountains composed of gabbro, cut by cone-sheets and dykes. Deep glacially-eroded basin. |
| Description: | Cuillin Hills, looking up Loch Coruisk, Skye, Inverness-shire. Mountains composed of gabbro, cut by cone-sheets and dykes. Deep glacially-eroded basin. The Cuillin Hills are composed principally of layered gabbro, and minor ultrabasic rocks (mainly on Sgurr Dubh), formed by precipitation of crystals at the base of a magma chamber in the roots of a volcano. Several magma chambers were involved, whose products form intrusions which successively cut each other. The gabbros and ultrabasic rocks were intruded by a series of doleritic cone-sheets dipping towards Loch Coruisk, and by many subvertical dykes, mostly south-east-trending, but some radiating from the Cuillin centre. |
| Date taken: | Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1893 |
| 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: | 148500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 820500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 203.29 KB; 1000 x 756 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 200 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ General views/ Igneous rock country, Geoscience subjects/ Igneous features/ Bosses and laccoliths |
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