Rock Outcrop

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Rock Outcrop

Image: © Anne Burgess Taken: 30 Oct 2020

This is the south end of a low hummock that seems to have been quarried at some point. I understand that it is an intrusion of ultramafic rock within a sheet of older metagabbro belonging to the Succoth-Brown Hill Intrusion.

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Image Location

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Latitude
57.495458
Longitude
-2.815311