Liesegang Bands, Carboniferous Sandstones, Fife, Scotland

 

Liesegang Bands in Carboniferous Sandstones of Fife by Glyn Ednie

Columnar Basalt, Isle of Staffa, Inner Hebrides, Scotland

 

The Scottish Side of the Giant's Causeway by Marco Franchino

Quiraing, Meall na Suiramach, Trotternish Peninsula, Isle of Skye, Scotland

 

Untitled by Thomas Luong Bavington

Columnar basalt, Staffa, Inner Hebrides in Argyll and Bute, Scotland

 

Nature's allure: Staffa island by lunaryuna

Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh Scotland by Anthony Cedrone

'The Saddle' toward Cir Mhor, Isle of Arran, Scotland

 

"The Saddle" by Aaron Wheatley

Arthur's Seat, Edinburgh, Scotland

 

Arthur's Seat by Brian Negus

"... a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design"

Robert Louis Stevenson

Like the castle rock on which Edinburgh Castle is built, it was formed by an extinct volcano system of Carboniferous age (approximately 350 million years old), which was eroded by a glacier moving from west to east during the Quaternary (approximately the last two million years), exposing rocky crags to the west and leaving a tail of material swept to the east.

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