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The Black Cuillins at Sunset

This is just a small part of the Cuillin Mountain range . The black Cuillins are largely made of Gabbro metamorphic rock giving the mountains their dark colour . What you are seeing is the magma chamber of a long gone volcano that with weathering and uplift reveals these amazing mountains , making it a great place for Geologist and Volcanoligists to study.

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Uploaded on August 5, 2013
Taken on July 27, 2013