Looking towards the mountains of Canisp and Suilven
The mountains on the skyline are remnants of reddish-brown Torridonian sandstone, capped by younger & harder white quartzite. Prolonged erosion of the sandstone has exposed a "fossil" landscape in the underlying grey Lewisian Gneiss of the foreground. These are the oldest rocks in Britain, dated in parts at around 3,000 million years. Map location
![Looking towards the mountains of Canisp and Suilven
The mountains on the skyline are remnants of reddish-brown Torridonian sandstone, capped by younger & harder white quartzite. Prolonged erosion of the sandstone has exposed a "fossil" landscape in the underlying grey Lewisian Gneiss of the foreground. These are the oldest rocks in Britain, dated in parts at around 3,000 million years. [url=http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=58.177&lon=-5.2751&scale=25000&icon=x/]Map location[/url]](albums/userpics/10001/normal_Mountains_of_Assynt.jpg "Click to view full size image
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Looking towards the mountains of Canisp and Suilven
The mountains on the skyline are remnants of reddish-brown Torridonian sandstone, capped by younger & harder white quartzite. Prolonged erosion of the sandstone has exposed a \"fossil\" landscape in the underlying grey Lewisian Gneiss of the foreground. These are the oldest rocks in Britain, dated in parts at around 3,000 million years. [url=http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=58.177&lon=-5.2751&scale=25000&icon=x/]Map location[/url]")
