The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 12

Editors: Helena Butler & Andrew McMillan

Published Autumn 1982

Cover illustration: a Geological Survey photograph (C595) taken c. 1910 showing water spouting from a borehole at Old Catcraig Quarry, Dunbar. The bore starts from the bottom part of the Longcraig Upper Limestone and goes down 425 feet. the geologist is C T Clough. (see article by I B Harrison & M P Henton on page 2 of this issue).

The photograph is reproduced by kind permission of the Director, British Geological Survey.
IPR/26-2C British Geological Survey. © NERC. All rights reserved.

Contents

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Editorial comment

1

Building Stones of Edinburgh project by Richard Gillanders

1

Water - a renewable resource? by I B Harrison & M P Henton

2

Hydrocarbon exploration in the North Seaby D Hall

9

Necker on Arran a translation by Lizzie Davenport

16

Ode to the Long Excursions by Muriel Hogarth with apologies to MacGonagall

21

Impressions of a geological jamboree in Glasgow by Norman Butcher

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