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

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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 Paradise by Ken Oakley

29

Geological Heritage; Grand Opening of Birkhill Mine, Bo'ness by MikeBrowne 

34

Book Review:

An Excursion Guide to the Moine Geology of the Scottish Highlands review by Steve Robertson 

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