Foreshore near Kinghorn
Introduction
The photograph on this page of Foreshore near Kinghorn by Anne Burgess as part of the Geograph project.
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Foreshore near Kinghorn
Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 20 Aug 2011
The rounded rocks on the right are mostly volcanic, and the seaweed-covered spit is made up of sedimentary rocks lying on top of the lava and tilted by later tectonic movements. It points towards Arthur's Seat, the largest extinct volcano in Edinburgh on the far coast of the Firth of Forth.
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Image Location
Latitude
56.07382
Longitude
-3.165615