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

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The Evolution of the Scotia Arc - An appreciation of the Swiney Lectures, 1979 by P Stone

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High temperature cooking in Assynt and its relevance to the Tectonic History of the North West Highlands

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A sabbatical down under by G Y Craig

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Dr John Horne by Mr Lightfoot (1911)

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The search for natural petroleum in the Lothiansby Alastair C Bagnall

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Geological expedition to south-west Greenlandby Alexander Milne, Frank Rennie, Neil Taylor and John Wood

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Society Publications by I T Bunyan

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