Rock Around + Building Stones of the University of Glasgow
We will locate and identify 16 boulders that have been placed around the campus, and draw a simple geological map. We will also investigate the university's building stones.
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Founded 1858
We will locate and identify 16 boulders that have been placed around the campus, and draw a simple geological map. We will also investigate the university's building stones.
The middle Dalradian Argyll group rocks are well exposed on coastal sections in Knapdale and the Tayvallich peninsula. This excursion will examine the rocks in the Kilmory Bay – Point of Knap section and on the west side of the Tayvallich peninsula.
A guided tour of the Glasgow Museums Resource Centre in Nitshill
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)
A walk from Cove Harbour to Siccar Point to look at Carboniferous and Devonian rocks and to visit Hutton's Unconformity
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
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.