| P number: | P001760 |
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| Old photograph number: | B00517 |
| Caption: | Tantallon Castle, 4.5 km. east of North Berwick, East Lothian. Looking east. Cliffs of tuff and agglomerate: wedge or false-bedded sandstone in cliff. |
| Description: | Tantallon Castle, 4.5 km. east of North Berwick, East Lothian. Looking east. Cliffs of tuff and agglomerate: wedge or false-bedded sandstone in cliff. The castle is built on a volcanic vent filled with basaltic agglomerate. However, sandstones of the Ballagan Formation (Inverclyde Group, Tournaisian) form the upper third of the cliff just to the left of the castle. The same rocks are also exposed at the foot of the cliffs to the shoreward of the cliffs. This indicates the extreme irregularity of the margins of many of the vents, which are of later Carboniferous to early Permian age. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/1892 |
| 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: | 359600 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 685100 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 164.63 KB; 1000 x 765 pixels; 85 x 65 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 202 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
| Average Rating: | Not yet rated |
| Categories: | Unsorted Images, Geoscience subjects/ Igneous features/ Volcanic agglomerates and breccias, tuffs and ashes |
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