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The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 15

Editors: Helena Butler & Andrew McMillan

Published Spring 1984

Cover illustration: the cover shows the quartz dolerite sill at Hound Point, near South Queensferry; Geological Survey photograph D1917. The photograph is reproduced by kind permission of the Programme Director, British Geological Survey, Edinburgh. IPR/26-2C British Geological Survey. © NERC. All rights reserved.

(see article by E H Francis on page 3 of this issue).

Contents page
Editorial 1
Tholeite sills of the Midland Valley and Tasmania compared by E H Francis 3
The geology of Edinburgh and its environs: Castle Rock by Charles McLaren (first published 1834) 10
Book Review:
How to keep dinosaurs - Robert Mash & Andre Deutsch reviewby Beverly Halstead (reprinted by kind permission of New Scientist) 26
Crossword solution 28
Publication Sales 29
Index of editions 1-15 30
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