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South Queensferry

Lower Carboniferous sedimentary rocks, Upper Carboniferous sills and late glacial and postglacial deposits

Free

Onich Shore

A classic east-west cross-section through folded Dalradian metasediments, part of the Appin Syncline

£25

Elie-St Monans-Pittenweem

Carboniferous fluvial, deltaic and shallow marine strata pierced by Carboniferous vents (diatremes) and the interplay between volcanism and sedimentation

£25

Snowdonia

Ordovician volcanics, with evidence for giant ash-flow eruptions, and large-scale Caledonian folding, all set in Snowdonia’s wonderful glacier-carved mountain scenery.

Bute

Carboniferous, Permo-Carboniferous and Palaeogene igneous rocks, columnar-jointed sandstone, Dalradian slates, schists and grits, along with the Highland Boundary Fault and Highland Border Complex.

Seamill to Portencross

Devonian sedimentary rocks and igneous structures, Clyde Plateau Lavas, glacial erratics, beach pebbles and post-glacial landscape features

£35

Glencoe and Ballachulish

Exploring the igneous complexes that were formed in the final stages of the closure of the Iapetus Ocean in the Silurian period.

£35