The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 19

Editors: Frances Lindsay & Lizzie Davenport

Published Autumn 1986

Cover illustration: the cover shows seismograms of the Oban earthquake of 29th September 1986, magnitude 4.2 ML, recorded on the LOWNET seismometer array in central Scotland.

(see article by Terry Turbitt on page 12).

Contents

page

Editorial

The Molopo Farms Project - mineral exploration in the Kalahariby David Gould

1

Ultra-Deep by Mike Cotterill

9

British earthquakes by Terry Turbitt

12

The Foss Baryte Mine, Aberfeldy by Rosalind Garton

20

Argyll Adventure or Dalavich Dabble? by Margaret Rushbridge

23

Book Review:

Down to Earth: one hundred and fifty years of the British Geological Survey - H E Wilson review by Andrew McMillan

27

Edinburgh Geological Society Library Booklist

30