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The Edinburgh Geologist - Issue no 36 Editor: Alan Fyfe Published April 2001 Cover illustration: the cover shows an engraving by Le Bas of the damage caused by the Lisbon Earthquake of November 1st 1755. This was based on drawings made by Paris and Pedegache, who were in Lisbon at the time of the eartthquake. This engraving shows the ruin of the St. Roch Tower. The illustration is published on the National Information Service for Earthquake Engineering (NISEE) web site www.eerc.berkeley.edu, and is taken from the NISEE Kozak Collection of Images of Historical Earthquakes. See article
on 'a new hypothesis for earthquakes'
on page 22. |
| Contents | Page |
| Editorial | 1 |
| Of glacial theory and wholemeal bread by Norman E Butcher & Alan Fyfe | 3 |
| Maps and legends by Isles Strachan | 8 |
| What's in a Name? - What's in a German Name?by Kenneth Aitken | 12 |
| Lothian and Borders RIGS Group by Mike Browne, David McAdam & David Land | 14 |
| A special place by Bob Reekie | 18 |
| A new hypothesis for earthquakes by the Editor | 22 |
| Geo-vineyardscontributed by Cecilia Taylor; tasting notes by the Editor | 25 |
| Poet's Corner - A theme song for structural geologists by Gilbert Wilson | 26 |
| Book Reviews: | |
| Exploring geology on the Isle of Arran - C J Nicholas review by Mike Tuke | 28 |
| The Oxford Companion to the Earth - Paul Hancock & Brian Skinner review by Norman Butcher | 29 |
| Rocksword Puzzle No. 5 compiled by Angela Anderson | 31 |
| The Proceedings of the Edinburgh Geological Society for the 166th Session, 1999-2000 | 33 |