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P number: P017099
Old photograph number: MNS09121
Caption: Oblique aerial view of The Haven, view to south-east; including Markle Bay and Dunnet Bay, Caithness.
Description: Oblique aerial view of The Haven, view to south-east; including Markle Bay and Dunnet Bay, Caithness. The bedding in this area dips gently (between 9 and 12 degrees) to north-west and west. The rocks, in the Mey Subgroup of the Upper Caithness Flagstone Group in the Middle Old Red Sandstone, are made up of successive beds of carbon-rich lacustrine shale, siltstone and finely-bedded sandstone with ripple marks present. These beds alternate with smoothly-bedded calcareous flags bearing fish remains ('fish-beds'). The flagstones have a well-defined slab-like appearance, caused by vertical and horizons joints and fractures; these are exploited by the erosive action of the sea which has created a wave-cut platform and the detachment of parts of the cliff in this picture. The cliffs are capped by a layer of boulder clay. Beyond the Haven, Murkle Bay and Dunnet Bay can be seen: the small mound is one of a number of Neolithic structures common to this area.
Date taken: 01/01/1991
Photographer: Bain, T.S.
Copyright statement: NERC
Acknowledgment: This image was digitized with grant-in-aid from SCRAN the Scottish Cultural Resources Access Network
X longitude/easting: 316200
Y latitude/northing: 970000
Coordinate reference system, ESPG code: 27700 (OSGB 1936 / British National Grid)
Orientation: Landscape
Size: 177.31 KB; 1000 x 746 pixels; 85 x 63 mm (print at 300 DPI); 265 x 197 mm (screen at 96 DPI);
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