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Oblique aerial view of Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, looking east.
SC 2087265
Description Oblique aerial view of Holyrood Park, Edinburgh, looking east.
Date 1972
Collection John Dewar
Catalogue Number SC 2087265
Category On-line Digital Images
Copy of ED 14050 CN
Scope and Content Geology, Holyrood Park, City of Edinburgh The origins of Holyrood Park go back some 350 million years to a time when this area would have been a series of low tropical islands under a hot sun. A huge volcano erupted through the sandstones sending out ash and lava over the surrounding area. The present summit lies at the heart of the volcano, which extended possibly twice as high. Over the millennia the top has been removed by erosion. Part of the cone survives as Whinny Hill, and Dunsapie Crag is also related. Salisbury Crags consist of basalt relating to eruptions that occurred long after the original cone was extinct. Since then the whole mass has been tipped on its side by land movements and glacial erosion has carved out the well known crags and valleys. Source: RCAHMS contribution to SCRAN.
External Reference 6442/CN/8
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