Events

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 […]

A short tour of Holmwood House and a look at how the design of the house links with geology, including the use of earth pigments.

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 […]

Leader: Professor Simon Cuthbert  This four-day excursion visits part of the northwest Highlands opposite the Isle of Skye that is well known for its dramatic scenery and human stories, encompassing the dramatic fjord of Loch Duich and Lochalsh, Eilean Donan Castle, the hidden gem of Glenelg and Sandaig Bay. Exposed in these hills and shores, […]