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The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 5

Editors: Helena Butler & Andrew McMillan

Published Spring 1979

Cover illustration: the cover shows a 'scene somewhere in the Scottish Highlands', a drawing by B N Peach on the back of a field map. The illustration is publlished by permission of the Assistant Director, Institute of Geological Sciences, Edinburgh. IPR/26-2C British Geological Survey. © NERC. All rights reserved.

Contents page
The Evolution of the Scotia Arc - An appreciation of the Swiney Lectures, 1979 by P Stone 1
High temperature cooking in Assynt and its relevance to the Tectonic History of the North West Highlands 7
A sabbatical down under by G Y Craig 8
Dr John Horne by Mr Lightfoot (1911) 10
The search for natural petroleum in the Lothiansby Alastair C Bagnall 12
Geological expedition to south-west Greenlandby Alexander Milne, Frank Rennie, Neil Taylor and John Wood 15
Society Publications by I T Bunyan 22
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