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The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 11

Editors: Helena Butler & Andrew McMillan

Published Spring 1982

Cover illustration: The Old Man of Hoy, Orkney, a sketch from The Scenery of Scotland by Sir Archibald Geikie, first edition 1865.  The Old Man of Hoy is a sea stack, 137 m high, of Hoy Sandstone (Upper Old Red Sandstone) resting on basalt lava.

Contents page
Editorial 1
The Modern Evolutionary Debate by E N K Clarkson 2
A peek behind the Curtain by Angela E Anderson 9
Geology and Planning in Lothian Regionby Jim Henry 12
Book Reviews:
Building Stones of Glasgow - Judith A Lawson review by Norman E Butcher  27
Plants invade the land - W G Chaloner and P Macdonald review by Alistair Sutherland 29
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