BGS Photograph Gallery

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Modern photographs

Landscape of NW Scotland - and other pretty pictures

	Rugged topography, Photo Ref: p500293		Looking from Conival to the Moine, Photo Ref: p500315
	West face of Conival from Inchnadamph, Photo Ref: p500349		Quinag from Loch Glencoul, Photo Ref: p513515
	Lochan Coire a'Mhadaidh, Photo Ref: p521763		Oblique aerial view for Aird da Loch and Glencoul.
	Stac Pollaidh , Photo Ref: p518623		Suilven. Photo ref: p000826
	Suilven. Photo ref: p000824		Suilven. Photo ref: p000827

Structures of the Moine Thrust Belt

	The Glencoul Thrust viewed across Loch Glencoul, Photo Ref: p000965		The Moine Thrust at Knockan Crag, Photo Ref: p512705
	Fault cross-cutting Torridon Group sandstone, Photo Ref: p512981		The Stack of Glencoul from the north, Photo Ref: p514906
	Na Tuadhan from the summit of Ben Mor Assynt, Photo Ref: p516910

The rocks of the Moine Thrust Belt

	Pipe Rock, Photo Ref: p512793		Cross-bedding in Applecross Formation, Torridon Group, Photo Ref: p512974
	Applecross Formation, Torridon Group, Photo Ref: p512821		Lewisian Gneiss, Photo Ref: p512788
	Lewisian Gneiss, Photo Ref: p512922		Lewisian Gneiss, Photo Ref: p513591
	Mylonite, Photo Ref: p512960		Unconformity of Torridon Group over Archaean Lewisian Gneiss, Photo Ref: p513507
	Stoer Group, Photo Ref: p518638		Stoer Group - desiccation cracks, Photo Ref: p518649
	Ripple marks - Stoer Group, Photo Ref: p518652

Quaternary geology; glacial history of NW Scotland

	Morainic deposit with large clasts of Cambrian Quartzite, Photo Ref: p500360		Summit of Ben More Assynt, Photo Ref: p516914
	The Bone Caves, Photo Ref: p512710		North slope of Cul Mor from Suilven, Photo Ref: p512782
	Recent, active debris fan, Photo Ref: p512860		Summit of Conival and Garbh Coire from Ben More Assynt, Photo Ref: p516904

Etc.

Photo Ref: p531464

Photo Ref: p530608

Old pictures

	Inchnadamph Hotel. Courtesy of the BGS.		Kyle Sku. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Members of the Geological Survey's team in the NW Highlands in the mid 1880s. Courtesy of the BGS.		The Scottish Geological Survey team in 1868. Photo Ref: p008752 Courtesy of the BGS.
	John Horne and Ben Peach outside the Inchnadamph Hotel in 1912. Courtesy of the BGS.

Cadell gallery

	HMC posing by his mountain building apparatus, Grange, 1887. Courtesy of the BGS.		HMC's sketch planning his experimental apparatus. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Reproducing "fan structure". Courtesy of the BGS.		Results of HMC's experiment to make imbricate structures. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Are faults preceded by folding? Courtesy of the BGS.		HMC's notes on the "double unconformity" run. Courtesy of the BGS.
	"Double unconformity" model. Courtesy of the BGS.

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Cadell collection

	Cadell's log through the slopes of Arkle showing imbricated Cambrian. Courtesy of the BGS.		Cadell's profile of Creag Urbhard, Foinaven. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Cadell's field sketch looking down Strath Beag. Courtesy of the BGS.		Cadell's field sketch of Creagan Meall Horn showing the Moine Thrust (GSP) and imbricated Cambrian sediments. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Looking down Strath Dionard in the heart of Foinaven country, by Henry Cadell. Courtesy of the BGS.		Classic view of the foreland hills, including Suilven, of Assynt by Henry Cadell. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Ben Stack across the head of Loch Stack by Henry Cadell. Courtesy of the BGS.		The elephants - an insight into the relationship between HMC and Hinxman. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Cadell's audit of his coverage during a field season. Courtesy of the BGS.		Part of Cadell's field map for Foinaven. Courtesy of the BGS.

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Ben Peach collection

	Stack of Glencoul. Courtesy of the BGS.		Quinag. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Strath Oykell. Courtesy of the BGS.		Peach's model for imbricate thrusting. Courtesy of the BGS.
	Repeating strata by folding or thrusting. Courtesy of the BGS.		Peach's section through the Moine thrust Belt at Kempie. Courtesy of the BGS.

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Maps and mapping

	Compiled (clean copy) map of part of the Lewisian area.		Compiled (clean copy) map of the Inchnadamph area.
	Part of Clough's field map, Loch More area.		John Macculoch's geological map of Scotland 1836.
	Part of Geikie's geological map of Scotland, 1876.		Part of Archibald Geikie’s 1892 edition of the Geological Map of Scotland
	Summary map of NW Scotland published in the mid Twentieth Century.		Part of Clough’s fieldslip of the Glencoul area.
	A synthesised map of the Glencoul area from the 1880s.		Detail of the Glencoul area.
	1:250 000 map of NW Scotland.		Simplified metamorphic map.

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