The Edinburgh Geologist
Issue no 25

Editor: Clive Auton

Published April 1991

Cover illustration: the cover shows Stac Polly and Cul Beag, northwestern Highlands. Relict mountains of Torridonian sandstone resting unconformably on an irregular basement of Lewisian gneiss; viewed from the south-east. BGS photograph D2422, 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

Report on MEGS 6 Lisbon Portugal by John Lovell

2

Returning to the fold: Some personal thoughts from a born again geologist by J M Johnstone

9

`Hugh Miller' is alive and living in Cromarty by Scott Johnstone

12

Tephrochronology in the Kluane region of the Yukon territory Canada by David Edwards

15

Volcanoes of the Andes : Report on a lecture given by RSJ Sparks by Mike Browne

25

Strange Earth No 11 : Maleficent Lakes of the Camerouns by Bill Baird

29

The Society's Written Archive by David Land 

32

The Society's Archive Collection of Photographs by William Harper 

35

Snippets by Mike Cotterill

37

Rhum 1990 by Bill Baird and Andrew McMillan

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Book Reviews:

Highland Geology Trail - John L Roberts review by Scott Johnstone

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The Northern Highlands - BGS Handbook of British Regional Geology review by Robert Cheeney 

45

The Highlands Controversy - David R Oldroyd review by Bill Baird 

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