Making Scotland’s Geology Accessible to All
Through regular blogs, fieldtrips/geotours & education
With a sprinkling of structural geology, rock fractures and cultural curiosities, venturing outside of Scotland occasionally.
Fractured mudstones, Stanley, Perthshire, UK
Mudstones have a bit of a boring reputation. These outcrops near Perth are far from boring, with a host of impressive structural geology features.
Andesite lava, Kinnoull Hill, Perth, UK
This short walk to the top of Kinnoull hill is really worth it for the view over the Tay valley and the andesite lavas marking that this was the site of an ancient volcano
Limekiln and Geology at Boddin Point
What a fascinating history there is here at Boddin Point, Montrose, Scotland. In the 18th C an entrepreneur took advantage of the limestone outcrops here to site a limeworks to be able to extract lime for use on fields to boost crop yield.
