Guide to Scotland's hills & mountains

Scar Hill photo

Xenoliths

The dark elliptical blobs are probably lumps of older rock caught up in the later magma which cooled deep in the crust of the Earth to form the granite rock which now surrounds them.

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Taken at: Scar Hill, near Ballater

Date taken / added: 8th Sep 2007

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