The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 21

Editors: David Land & Margaret Ford

Published January 1989

Cover illustration: the cover shows Siccar Point, Berwickshire with vertical Silurian greywackes are overlain unconformably by Upper Old Red Sandstone. James Hutton, accompanied by John Playfair and James Hall, made his famous visit to Siccar Point in 1788. BGS photograph D1471 reproduced by permission of the Director, British Geological Survey. IPR/26-2C British Geological Survey. © NERC. All rights reserved.

Contents

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Editorial

1

A stream of trilobites by Euan Clarkson & Cecilia Taylor

3

Wardie Shore SSSI by David Norman

5

Ophiolites and the Ballantree Complex: part 1 by Phil Stone

7

What else did Hutton see at Siccar Point? by David Land

13

Geology of the island of Kelifos by Andrew Bell

17

The 11th International Congress of Carboniferous Stratigraphy and Geology, Beijing by Mike Browne

22

BGS Murchison House Open Days 1988 by Andrew McMillan

26

Book Review:

Building Stones of Edinburgh reviewed by Judith Lawson

29

MEGS-5 by Andrew McMillan

31

Strange Earth No 4by Bill Baird

37

Strange Earth No 5by Bill Baird

37

A Rogart ditty by Andrew McMillan & Bill Baird

38