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

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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 review by Beverly Halstead (reprinted by kind permission of New Scientist)

26

Crossword solution

28

Publication Sales

29

Index of editions 1-15

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