The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 4

Editors: Helena Butler & Andrew McMillan

Published Autumn 1978

Cover illustration: the cover shows an engraving by D B Pyet based on a drawing made in 1787 by John Clerk of Eldin of the Unconformity at Jedburgh, Borders, forming Plate III in Volume I of James Hutton's Theory of the Earth, 1795. It was published with permission of Scottish Academic Press

Contents

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Professor Heddle - A Legendary Mineralogist by Harry Macpherson

1

RAF Iceland Expedition 1978 - geological report by Bill Baird

4

Vintage Assynt '78 by Andrew A McMillan

8

Ode to the Baikal Rift by B C King

16

Geological Crossword No 2

17

Book Reviews:

The Lost Drawings  review by Norman E Butcher 

18

Geology - Andrew McLeish  review by Roger A Scrutton

21

Society Publications

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