The oil-shale bing is a weird, rather lunar landscape at sunset. Weld, or Dyer's Rocket, grows well on the calcerous shale. The plant is used as a yellow dye. The oil-shale is still being excavated at Niddry Bing and is used as hardcore in road construction.
Uploaded to Geograph by Greg Fitchett on 24 June 2010
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