| P number: | P002403 |
|---|---|
| Old photograph number: | C02840 |
| Caption: | Ben Hiant, Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire. Part of a panorama of the remains of the Ben Hiant Tertiary volcano from Ardslignish with C02839. The description is for the whole panorama. |
| Description: | Ben Hiant, Kilchoan, Ardnamurchan, Argyllshire. Part of a panorama of the remains of the Ben Hiant Tertiary volcano from Ardslignish with C02839. The description is for the whole panorama. The bedded rocks consist of white weathering quartzose Moine schists, seen in the foreground, overlain by the Tertiary basalt lavas, forming the dark scarp features in the middle distance. Agglomerates form the headland to the left (Maclean's Nose) and extend up hill to the right, transgressing across the bedded rocks. The ridge along the summit is formed of the Ben Hiant quartz-dolerite intrusion, overriding the agglomerate. The history of this sequence starts with the eruption of the plateau basalts onto the Moine schist basement. This was followed by the formation of explosion-vents of a central volcano that violently ejected vast amounts of agglomerates, pyroclastics and occasional pitchstone lavas. This was followed by the intrusion of the great mass of quartz-dolerite - the Ben Hiant Intrusion. Its shape suggests that it extended upwards then spread out laterally as though filling some great crater. |
| Date taken: | Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1920 |
| Photographer: | Manson, W. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 153500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 763500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 145.80 KB; 1000 x 756 pixels; 85 x 64 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 200 mm (screen at 96 DPI); |
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| Categories: | Unsorted Images |
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