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West Lothian Shale Bings

The spoils heaps left by mining during Scotland’s first oil boom continue to shape the landscape today.


NASA Earth Observatory image by Joshua Stevens, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Sara E. Pratt.

Published March 21, 2022
Data acquired March 8, 2022

Source:
Landsat 9 > OLI-2