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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
Dock and pier at Hynish
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Tiree - Ceann a' Mhara, Balephuil, Hynish and Balemartine
Sunrise over the dock and pier at Hynish, from which granite quarried on Mull was shipped out to build the Skerryvore lighthouse in 1838 to 1844.
26 September 2013
Dock and pier at Hynish
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Tiree - Ceann a' Mhara, Balephuil, Hynish and Balemartine
The dock and pier at Hynish, from which granite quarried on Mull was shipped out to build the Skerryvore lighthouse in 1838 to 1844.
26 September 2013
Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The eastern wall of the Walls Boundary Fault. The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The eastern wall of the Walls Boundary Fault, which may look like red granite but has a surface layer of fault gouge, a fine-grained rock ground down from the granite and schist by the fault movement. The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The eastern wall of the Walls Boundary Fault, which may look like red granite but has a face of fault gouge, a fine-grained rock ground down from the granite and schist by the fault movement. The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
The Walls Boundary Fault
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Shetland - Northmavine
The Walls Boundary Fault and Back Sands, Back of Ollaberry, Northmavine, Shetland. The fault is a northern extension of the Great Glen shear fault, and is the best example in Britain of this type of feature. The rocks to the west of the fault have moved 100km south-west relative to those to the east of the fault. The hard granite on the eastern side is more resistant to erosion than the schists on the western side.
20 July 2013
Red granite periglacial terraces, Ronas Hill
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Shetland - Northmavine
The red granite of Ronas Hill, Northmavine, Shetland, showing periglacial solifluction terraces and low growing dwarf Arctic Alpine plants.
