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Cover image for The Edinburgh Geologist issue 23
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 page
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
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