| P number: | P002381 |
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| Old photograph number: | C02662 |
| Caption: | Looking east to Gylen Castle and beyond, south end of island of Kerrera, Oban, Argyllshire. |
| Description: | Looking east to Gylen Castle and beyond, south end of island of Kerrera, Oban, Argyllshire. The castle is built on the top of the old sea cliffs forming a feature at the back of the 6.4 m. (25 ft.) raised beach platform. The cliffs are composed of conglomerate near the base of the local Lower Devonian (Lower Old Red Sandstone) succession. The natural arch in centre-left would have been an old sea cave excavated in a former sea stack on the raised beach. The basal conglomerate of the Lower Old Red Sandstone is commonly over 60 m. thick hereabouts and contains boulders of the underlying Dalradian rocks and of the penecontemporaneous Lorne Plateau Lavas. The latter crop out on Kerrera and the adjacent mainland. |
| Date taken: | Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1919 |
| 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: | 180500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 726500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 183.62 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/ Landforms, marine/ Raised beaches |
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