The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 9

Editors: Helena Butler & Andrew McMillan

Published Spring 1981

Cover illustration: ropey flow-texture in basaltic pahoe-hoe lava, Thingvellir, Iceland, photgraph by R T Wightman & I D Bartholomew (see article on page 3 of this issue). 

Contents

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Editorial

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A 3-week geological excursion to Iceland by two recent Edinburgh honours graduates by R T Wightman & I D Bartholomew

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Essays from the North II more extracts from the notebooks of the late Mr Ian Sime

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Analogous evolution of the north west Hellenides and the Scottish Caledonides by Alan E S Kemp

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Publications

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A mainly geological crossword

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Book Reviews:

Five booklets from the Geological Museum (The Story of the Earth (1972), Volcanoes (1974), Moon, Mars and meteorites (1977), Britain before Man (1978), The age of the Earth (1980)) review by Norman E Butcher

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Geologists and the history of geology - William A S Sarjeant  review by C D Will

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