Sango Bay Photo

Sango Bay - Highland

Beach and rocks near Durness, Highland

Sango Bay has a superb sandy beach, and the added interest of these rocky outcrops. This image has been scanned from an Agfacolor transparency dated August 1974. The rock stacks on the beach are of what was possibly Lewisian gneiss, but has been extensively deformed by movements during the Moine thrusting. They have been sheared to form bands of shell-shaped quartz, from which the rock has been nicknamed 'Oystershell Rock'. The cliff in the background is the Sangobeg Fault. (from Anne Burgess http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/835080 ) See also [[340084]]

© Roger Kidd and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence

Taken at: Sango Bay, North Scotland

Date taken / added: 31st Jul 1974

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