| P number: | P002536 |
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| Old photograph number: | C03902 |
| Caption: | The Quiraing and Prison Rock, Trotternish peninsula, Skye, Inverness-shire. Escarpment of Tertiary plateau lavas and the major landslip. |
| Description: | The Quiraing and Prison Rock, Trotternish peninsula, Skye, Inverness-shire. Escarpment of Tertiary plateau lavas and the major landslip. In late Tertiary times the lava plateau was tilted slightly to the west and considerably broken up by faulting, as a result this eastern seaboard was thought to have been cliffs up to 2000 feet high. The lower part of the cliff would have been composed of Jurassic sediments and dolerite sills, whilst above stood the great thickness of lava flows. Such an arrangement obviously would have been unstable with the sediments tending to slide under the weight of the super-incumbent lavas, so forming the landslips. Identical conditions occur in the Cascade Mountains in northern Washington State. |
| Date taken: | Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 BST 1945 |
| 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: | 145500 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 869500 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 178.89 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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