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Garabal Hill-Glen Fyne Igneous Complex

A study of some of the intrusions that belong to the South Grampians Suite, which was intruded into the Southern Highland Group during the mid-Silurian (ca 425 Ma)

Berwickshire Coastal Path

A walk from Cove Harbour to Siccar Point to look at Carboniferous and Devonian rocks and to visit Hutton's Unconformity

Aberfoyle area

A study of the Highland Boundary Fault, where low grade metamorphic rocks of the Dalradian succession are located against upturned conglomerates of Lower Devonian age, with slivers of Highland Border Complex rocks in the fault zone

North-east Ireland

This trip will explore the British and Irish Palaeogene Igneous Province surrounding Carlingford Lough at Slieve Gullion, Carlingford and Mourne, including a range of volcanic features, from a caldera-forming ring complex to spectacular cone-sheets.

Balmaha

Examination of the Highland Border Complex and the Lower and Upper Old Red Sandstone rocks in the Balmaha area

Morvern & Ardgour, Lochaber

We will see a fascinating variety of rocks covering a huge span of geological time, ranging from the Moine to the Palaeogene. We will also see rocks from the Ordovician, Silurian, Carboniferous, Triassic and Jurassic periods.

Morvern & Ardgour, Lochaber

We will see a fascinating variety of rocks covering a huge span of geological time, ranging from the Moine to the Palaeogene. We will also see rocks from the Ordovician, Silurian, Carboniferous, Triassic and Jurassic periods.

Kilewnan Burn and Dunmore from Fintry village

We shall be looking at the igneous rocks of the Clyde Plateau Volcanic Formation, the Carboniferous sedimentary rocks of the Clyde Sandstone Formation and the Ballagan Beds.

Tyndrum/Glen Orchy

A visit to the former lead mine near Tyndrum followed by a trip to Glen Orchy to examine outcrops of Dalradian rocks