Starting the trek
Hamburg Airport #2
Hamburg Airport #1
The last leaves of autumn 2017
Thessaloniki #12
Thessaloniki #13
Thessaloniki #14
Thessaloniki #15
Thessaloniki #16
The one that got away - Edinburgh - August 1989
Pentax PC35AF-M
view vanaf wilhelminaberg richting Eikske ,Molenbe…
Maartse bui
view to former coalmine Emma 1985
view to Ruin Schaesberg, Landgraaf and ON-4 Heerle…
The same ruin ,the same lens but shot from the op…
Leenhof, Heerlen_NL
in den beginne , skibaan van wilhelminaberg,Landgr…
laura en vereniging vanaf wilhelminaberg
view naar palemig / MTS /Kloosterkoolhof /huize d…
Basil
The 7th Heaven
Beauty & The Beasts
Family Time
Woman & Dogs
Are you talking to me?
in d'Oude Poort
Last swim before winter
Scarborough harbour entrance & light August 1989
Scarborough West Pier & lighthouse - August 1989
Cooling tower, Coal mine Anna Alsdorf_Germany
Sigrano,Heerlen_Netherlands
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Shapes of a Scottish midday
Highlands
Four hours in London
Gents or chavs?
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Mountains near Mestia Georgia
Steenberg v.m. Mijn O-N-4, Sigrano & Edisonflat v…
Deathshead-hawkmoth resting after a busy night
Meezenbroek gezien vanaf Mijnsteenhoop O-N 4 , 1…
From My Balcony
Palmtree and Building
Woodham's scrapyard on Barry Island
31625 at Ropley in 1997
Starting from a village
Gravity statues
Mushroom view
Mountain is sacred, but first take care for Mr. Pr…
Dream about the colours
Plays with gravity
Timber is wood, and wood is good
Finally at the lake
Waters of mystery
Path to somewhere
Goodbye village
Reflections
Leaving the heavenly clouds I.
Leaving the heavenly clouds II.
Leaving the heavenly clouds III.
30828 at Axminster in 1961
Locomotives on a train!
'Beddgelert' on The Fairbourne Railway
Location
See also...
" Amazing Nature - Einmalige Natur - La nature unique - La natura unica "
" Amazing Nature - Einmalige Natur - La nature unique - La natura unica "
Bianco e Nero - Black & White - Blanc et Noir - Blanco y Negro
Bianco e Nero - Black & White - Blanc et Noir - Blanco y Negro
Scotland / Schottland / Écosse / Scotia / Caledonia
Scotland / Schottland / Écosse / Scotia / Caledonia
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Looks like Himalaya
The Highlands lie to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault, which runs from Arran to Stonehaven. This part of Scotland is largely composed of ancient rocks from the Cambrian and Precambrian periods which were uplifted during the later Caledonian Orogeny. Smaller formations of Lewisian gneiss in the northwest are up to 3 billion years old. The overlying rocks of the Torridon Sandstone form mountains in the Torridon Hills such as Liathach and Beinn Eighe in Wester Ross.
These foundations are interspersed with many igneous intrusions of a more recent age, the remnants of which have formed mountain massifs such as the Cairngorms and the Cuillin of Skye. A significant exception to the above are the fossil-bearing beds of Old Red Sandstone found principally along the Moray Firth coast and partially down the Highland Boundary Fault. The Jurassic beds found in isolated locations on Skye and Applecross reflect the complex underlying geology. They are the original source of much North Sea oil. The Great Glen is formed along a transform fault which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands.
The entire region was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages, save perhaps for a few nunataks. The complex geomorphology includes incised valleys and lochs carved by the action of mountain streams and ice, and a topography of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have similar heights above sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places.
These foundations are interspersed with many igneous intrusions of a more recent age, the remnants of which have formed mountain massifs such as the Cairngorms and the Cuillin of Skye. A significant exception to the above are the fossil-bearing beds of Old Red Sandstone found principally along the Moray Firth coast and partially down the Highland Boundary Fault. The Jurassic beds found in isolated locations on Skye and Applecross reflect the complex underlying geology. They are the original source of much North Sea oil. The Great Glen is formed along a transform fault which divides the Grampian Mountains to the southeast from the Northwest Highlands.
The entire region was covered by ice sheets during the Pleistocene ice ages, save perhaps for a few nunataks. The complex geomorphology includes incised valleys and lochs carved by the action of mountain streams and ice, and a topography of irregularly distributed mountains whose summits have similar heights above sea-level, but whose bases depend upon the amount of denudation to which the plateau has been subjected in various places.
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