Leaders: Iain Alison and Katie Strang *children welcome and free with an adult* This guided walk will use the Strathclyde geoconservation group's leaflet but in the reverse direction. This half-day trip will take an entirely off-road route along the Kelvin River Walkway taking in the geology along the way. Many exposures can be seen across […]

Leaders: Austen Brown and David Webster The rocks exposed around Portencross are mainly sandstones (known across the UK as the ‘Old Red Sandstone’ (ORS) dating back to the Devonian Period (420 to 360 million years ago). The ‘Lower Old Red Sandstone’ was deposited in desert environments in the aftermath of the Caledonian Orogeny when Scotland […]

Leaders: Kevin Farrell and Neil Clark A Geological Look at Holmwood House. Holmwood House is a Victorian villa designed by Alexander 'Greek' Thomson, with a kitchen garden and courtyard tearoom. If the weather allows we will walk down into Linn Park to look at some fossil trackways before heading back to the house for a […]

Leader: Margaret Greene Necropolis Hill is one of the highest points of Glasgow. It stands proud simply because it is the outcrop of an intrusion of more resistant igneous rock into the surrounding weaker sandstone. The igneous rock is a type of basaltic lava, known as dolerite. This can be seen in the quarry at […]

Leader: Katie Strang The rocks exposed along the foreshore at Burnmouth in the Scottish Borders are early Carboniferous in age and belong to the Ballagan Formation. They were deposited in a low-lying vegetated coastal wetland around 350 million years ago, when Scotland as we know it was a very different place! During this time we […]

Leaders: Neil Clark, Gary Hoare and Katie Strang   A look at the rocks and fossils of the Girvan southern foreshore that have been studied for well over a century. Elizabeth Gray, the famous Scottish 19th century fossil collector and facilitator of research grew up here. Her discoveries led to our current understanding of the […]

A residential field excursion to the Garvellach Islands. Now postponed to May 2026. Trip currently full. To go on the waiting list contact the Hon Secretary at sec@gsocg.org