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Old photograph number: D02275
Caption: Scenery at Gruinard Bay, direction of view west-south-west, Ross and Cromarty.
Description: Scenery at Gruinard Bay, direction of view west-south-west, Ross and Cromarty. Hills of Torridonian sandstone rise above glaciated outcrops of Lewisian gneiss on the far side of the bay. At the head of the bay are raised beaches originating from isostatic rebound after the melting of the last ice age glaciers. Lewisian gneiss forms the glaciated surface in the foreground and the large erratic boulder in the bottom right.
Date taken: Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 GMT 1976
Photographer: Pulsford, J.M.
Copyright statement: NERC
Acknowledgment: This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
X longitude/easting: 194000
Y latitude/northing: 890100
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 248.95 KB; 1000 x 787 pixels; 85 x 67 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 208 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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Categories: Best of BGS Images/ Landscapes, Geoscience subjects/ Named locality, Geoscience subjects/ Rocks, metamorphic/ Gneisses  

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