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Ailsa Craig south-eastern cliffs
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Cliffs on the south-east side of Ailsa Craig south of the lighthouse. Below the columnar granite are scree slopes.
24 June 2007
Ailsa Craig south-eastern cliffs
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Cliffs on the south-east side of Ailsa Craig south of the lighthouse, with a scree slope below, where rocks have fallen off the cliff.
24 June 2007
Ailsa Craig south-eastern cliffs
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Firth of Clyde - Ailsa Craig scenery, plants and animals
Cliffs on the south-east side of Ailsa Craig south of the lighthouse, with a scree slope below, where rock has fallen off the cliff.
24 June 2007
Loch Tulla from Beinn Dorain
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Bridge of Orchy Loch Tulla and Beinn Dorain
Loch Tulla from Beinn Dorain, with scree slopes formed by frost shattered rocks in the foreground.
25 April 2011
The Campsie Fells from Lennoxtown
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Campsie and Fintry Hills
The Campsie Fells from Lennoxtown, showing the Carboniferous lava flows and a scree slope formed after the last glaciation by frost shattering, and gravity.
01 January 2019
Wild landscape of the Paps of Jura
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Islay Ferry
Wild landscape of the Paps of Jura from the Sound of Islay
27 August 2011
Paps of Jura from the Sound of Islay
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Islay Ferry
Paps of Jura from CalMac ferry MV Finlaggan, in the Sound of Islay
27 August 2011
An Lochan Uaine, Glen More
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Cairngorms in summer
An Lochan Uaine, Ryvoan Pass, Glen More near Loch Morlich, taken by Lorna Beattie. On the left is a magnificent example of a scree slope which has been partially consolidated by the growth of Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) trees.
30 July 2018
Heather on Cleadale cliff scree slopes
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Eigg - Cleadale cliffs
Heather or Ling (Calluna vulgaris) and Bell Heather (Erica cinerea) on the scree slopes below the Cleadale cliffs, Eigg. The cliffs consist of Tertiary basalt formed by volcanic action about 60 milliion years ago.
02 September 2016
Blue sky over Tinto, South Lanarkshire
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South Lanarkshire
Blue sky over Tinto, South Lanarkshire, famous for its red Felsite rock, with which many roads in Lanarkshire are surfaced, and its periglacial stone stripes.
