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Have I struck it lucky?
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Oozing out of the ground at about 2,000 feet.
brecon beacons?
Do you issue fines for the ea?
Old skool MKS pedals! (Or copies?)
On the north side of the Cromarty Firth one of the hills has six cathedral -like caverns hollowed our inside it - made to store over 5 million gallons of oil for the fleet during the war. Are you near Cromarty?
http://www.invergordon.info/InchindownTunnel
No, but you have found some Iron Bacteria. Congratulations on your new pet.
A little oil goes a long way on the surface of the water, probably just a landrover passed over sometime in the past week!
In order:
Highlands, not the deep south. 🙂
MKS (on all my bikes)
Too high up, and not near Cromarty.
Iron Bacteria - tell us more. 🙂
I doubt there's been a vehicle on this track for several years, but it's not from the track anyway.
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I thought it may be a natural product of the peat bog, or heather. Seen it in a few other similar places.
Is it the lair of the Greasy Strangler?
I used to see this quite often as a geologist while working in peat uplands. Remember that peat burns and has a fairly high hydrocarbon content. It is also pretty much constantly waterlogged. Thus any water than can flow out of a peat bog will often show some hydrocarbon staining. This is quite normal. If you go to the south coast around Kimmeridge you can smell the hydrocarbons coming out of the rocks on the coast. In Tunisia we visited a spring where proper pure black crude was seeping out of the ground.
See a doctor. Immediately.
I can’t remember exactly where but somewhere up on midhope moors a Hawker Hunter went straight in sometime in the mid 90s - there was a huge crater which leached jet fuel for years afterwards...
welshfarmer - Im sure Ive seen similar in the hills above your manor.
Peat is a potential answer. I think naturally occurring oil deposits unless in an oil shale area is less likely.
Run a twig through it, if it shatters and stays fragmented it’s not oil. If if goes back together seamlessly then call your self Clampitt
You've been drinking laphroig again haven't you?,
Obviously fracking going on so the hippies will be up to set up an anti-fracking protest camp shortly (even if there is no fracking, *cough* Leith Hill *cough* 😉 ). Though probably too cold for them up there.
”The dramatic effects of iron bacteria are seen in surface waters as brown slimy masses on stream bottoms and lakeshores or as an oily sheen upon the water. More serious problems occur when bacteria build up in well systems. Iron bacteria in wells do not cause health problems, but they can reduce well yields by clogging screens and pipes.”
Summon the Vicar
Those tanks in Invergordon are nothing compared to the ones built in Lyness, Orkney during WW2. 100,000 tonnes capacity. Biggest structure in Orkney by far and nothing to see.
Ive seen that oily surface on peat hills. Never known what it is.