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Ailsa Craig southern cliffs and gannetry
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Ailsa Craig southern cliffs, showing columnar jointed granite and part of the colony of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus).
24 June 2007
Ailsa Craig southern cliffs and gannetry
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Ailsa Craig southern cliffs, showing columnar jointed granite and both below and above that, parts of the colony of Northern Gannets (Morus bassanus).
24 June 2007
Ailsa Craig southern cliffs
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Ailsa Craig southern cliffs, showing columnar jointed granite and a vertical dyke intrusion.
24 June 2007
Columnar jointed volcanic rock, Sgurr of Eigg
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Eigg - Galmisdale and the Sgurr
Columns of Jurassic volcanic pitchstone showing columnar jointing, on the path up to An Sgùrr, (the Sgurr of Eigg).
28 August 2016
Kilt Rock, Skye
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Skye - Trotternish
Kilt Rock, Staffin, Trotternish, Skye. The rock is formed by Jurassic sediments overlain by a 90 metre thick columnar jointed sill.
13 July 2010
Columnar jointed sandstone
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South Bute
Columnar jointing in Old Red sandstone, very unusual and probably formed by heating from an igneous mass which cooled underneath the sandstone, producing columns at right angles to the soure of heat.
