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Arkle, North West Highlands
Arkle is a mountain in Sutherland, in the far north-west corner of the Scottish Highlands. The mountain is made up of glistening white Cambrian Quartzite laid down around 530 million years ago on an uneven basement of much older Lewisian gneiss. The quartzite, and the Torridian sandstone which makes up many of the other mountains in the area, have been dissected by rivers and glaciers, leaving a series of isolated peaks,
Arkle, North West Highlands
Arkle is a mountain in Sutherland, in the far north-west corner of the Scottish Highlands. The mountain is made up of glistening white Cambrian Quartzite laid down around 530 million years ago on an uneven basement of much older Lewisian gneiss. The quartzite, and the Torridian sandstone which makes up many of the other mountains in the area, have been dissected by rivers and glaciers, leaving a series of isolated peaks,