| P number: | P002673 |
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| Old photograph number: | D00810 |
| Caption: | View from near Townhead of the south face of Fintry Hills, Stirlingshire. |
| Description: | Following a long period of magmatic quiescence during the Middle and Upper Devonian period igneous activity became widespread in the Midland Valley of Scotland in the Lower Carboniferous. The thickest and most continuous sequence of lavas was the 'Clyde Plateau Lavas'. This extended in a continuous outcrop to the north, west and south of Glasgow, the Fintry Hills is part of this outcrop. Fintry are at the end of a north-east - south-west zone of agglomerate-filled vents with or without vent intrusions that extends for 27 km. to Dumbarton, providing evidence for the existence of eruptive centres. Escarpment of basalt lavas of Carboniferous Calciferous Sandstone Measures age, showing trap features. In middle distance, right of centre, large landslipped masses of lava are detached from the main cliff. |
| Date taken: | 01/01/1962 |
| 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: | 265900 |
| Y latitude/northing: | 684900 |
| Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: | 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid) |
| Orientation: | Landscape |
| Size: | 179.21 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, river/ Escarpments, Geoscience subjects/ Stratigraphical/ Torridonian |
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