The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 18

Editors: Frances Lindsay & Lizzie Davenport

Published Autumn 1985

Cover illustration: the cover shows an engraving from Edinburgh Past and Present by J B Gillies, Edinburgh 1886.

Contents

page

Editorial

1

"Is Arthur's Seat of Volcanic Origin?"by Charles Waterston

2

Geology in Scottish Schools by Dr Andrew McLeish

8

The Natural History of the Mineral Kingdomby Mike Cotterill

21

International Report: MEGS-4, EUG-3 by Mike Browne

26

INHIGEO Symposium in Edinburgh by Cliff Nelson

29

Fourteen Down: Boulby's Desert Winds taken with a pinch of salt by M A E Browne

32

Assynt Revisited by Margaret Rushbridge 

38

Strange Earth 3by Bill Baird 

42

The Testimony of the Rocks - May 1985by Bill Baird & Andrew McMillan

43

Publication Sales

45