IDNO

LS.115747.TC1

Description

View of landscape with a mountainous ridge in the background going off to the right, covered in plants. In the foreground is a flat plain, possibly a beach, with two people standing on it in the middle distance. [JD 31/8/2012]

Place

N Africa; Libya; northern Cyrenaica; Gulf of Sirte

Cultural Affliation

Named Person

Photographer

None

Collector / Expedition

McBurneys and Hey’s Expeditions to northern Cyrenaican, 1947, 1948, and 1952

Date

circa 1947 - 1952

Collection Name

Teaching Slide Collection

Source

Format

Lantern Slide Black & White

Primary Documentation

Other Information

Publication: Photograph (b) from Plate I, page 309 of ‘Prehistory & Pleistocene Geology in Cyrenaican Libya’ by McBurney and Hey, with the following caption:
"Typical ‘staircase topography’ 18km. west of Apollonia. The landward edge of the terrace in the foreground [herecovered with a thin layer of alluvium] lies about 35m. above sea-level. A higher terrace can also be seen, whose landward edge lies at 55m." [EMR 31/8/2012]