| P number: | P002510 |
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| Old photograph number: | C03562 |
| Caption: | View of the Sanquhar-Kirkconnel Coalfield, Dumfries and Galloway. |
| Description: | View of the Sanquhar-Kirkconnel Coalfield, Dumfries and Galloway. Looking east down the Nith Valley with, on the right, a gentle dip-slope of Carboniferous rocks unconformable upon Ordovician. To the left, Carboniferous rocks are downfaulted against Ordovician greywackes forming a scarp feature. The Sanquhar coalfield is a classic half-graben, common in the Southern Uplands, in which the basin subsided against a fault along only one side. The other margin operated like a hinge, with the whole basin being let down rather like a trap door. In this case, the Sanquhar Fault bounds the coalfield to the north-east, whereas the other margins are merely unconformable on Ordovician. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/1937 |
| Photographer: | Fisher, W.D. |
| Copyright statement: | Crown |
| Acknowledgment: | This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network |
| X longitude/easting: | 276500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 612500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 178.95 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 |
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