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Cover image for The Edinburgh Geologist issue 23
The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 23

Editor: Clive Auton

Published January 1990

Cover illustration: the cover shows Dore Holm, natural arch in Old Red Sandstone volcanics near Esha Ness, Shetland, BGS photograph D1657, reproduced by permission of the Director, British Geological Survey. IPR/26-2C British Geological Survey. © NERC. All rights reserved.


Contents page
Editorial 1
Ophiolites and the Ballantree Complex: part 2 by Phil Stone 3
Shetland Saga by David Gould 8
Old Stone or New? by David Taylor 14
Strange Earth No 8 by Bill Baird 16
Subsidence Structures of Gozo, Malta by Niall Fleming 18
The Grant Institute Greenland Ventureby Jane Foster, Rona McGill and Martin Pendlebury 23
Iceland : A Geologist's and Geographer's Paradiseby Ken Oakley 29
Geological Heritage; Grand Opening of Birkhill Mine, Bo'nessby MikeBrowne  34
Book Review:
An Excursion Guide to the Moine Geology of the Scottish Highlands review by Steve Robertson  39

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