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• Excursion Guide to the North-west Highlands
• Excursion Guide to the Moine
• Excursion Guide to Rum
• Discovering Edinburgh's Volcano - A geological guide to Holyrood Park
• Geology and landscapes of Scotland
• Minerals of Scotland - past and present

• Building Stones of Edinburgh
• Ardnamurchan - A guide to geological excursions
• Assynt District of Sutherland - Geological excursion guide
• Ballachulish Igneous Complex and Aureole - a field guide
• Fife and Angus Geology
• Lothian Geology - An excursion guide
• Geology in southwest Scotland - An excursion guide

A geological excursion guide to the North-west Highlands of Scotland Editors: Kathryn Goodenough and Maarten Krabbendam ISBN: 978-1-905267-53-8

Full Price £15.99 GBP Member's Price £12.80 GBP

This excursion guide covers the classic geology of the North-west Highlands between Ullapool and Durness, including the Moine Thrust Zone, the Lewisian gneisses, and the Torridonian and Cambro-Ordovician sedimentary successions. This guide represents a greatly expanded and updated version of the original Guide to the Assynt District, the last edition of which was published in 1979.

This full-colour guide incorporates an overview of the geology of the area, followed by 16 excursions to such classic localities as Knockan Crag, Loch Assynt shore, Achmelvich and Durness. The excursions are illustrated by full-colour maps based on the latest BGS mapping and colour photographs. Each individual excursion represents a full day: some excursions involve long walks in remote mountain country, whilst others are more accessible. This book will be of interest to anyone fascinated by the geology of the North-west Highlands.

Readership: geology students, professional geologists, and informed amateurs.
Full price: £15.99 Members' Price: £12.80 (P&P £1.95)

A Geological Excursion Guide to Rum Authors: C. H. Emeleus & V. R. Troll ISBN: 978-1-905267-22-4 (joint publication with National Museums Scotland)

Full Price £12.99 GBP Member's Price £10.40 GBP

Rum is justly renowned for the ultrabasic cumulate magmas of its Eastern and Western Layered Intrusions of Paleocene age. Less well-known are the equally spectacular sidewall and roof contacts of the magma chamber, together with examples, rare in the geological column, of sequences through the caldera floor of the Rum volcano and the overlying volcano-sedimentary infill (with ignimbrites).

The nine excursions in this A5-sized guide, each colour coded for easy reference, highlight all of the above and also illustrate the complex contacts of the Lewisian and thick Torridonian successions with Paleocene rocks, a feather-edge Triassic succession and Jurassic fault slivers, as well as a plant-bearing Paleocene sequence of lavas and conglomerates that demonstrates very rapid intra-Paleocene unroofing of the Rum Igneous Complex.

A comprehensive summary of Rum geology and an extensive reference list complement the 77 photographs, diagrams and integrated location and geological maps, all in colour.

Readership: Professional geologists, informed amateur geologists, undergraduate students, visitors to Rum.

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An excursion guide to the Moine Geology of the Northern Highlands of Scotland Authors: Rob Strachan, Ian Alsop, Clark Friend & Suzanne Miller ISBN: 978-1-905267-33-0 (joint publication with National Museums Scotland and Geological Society of Glasgow)

Full Price £17.99 GBP Member's Price £14.40 GBP

Effectively an excursion guide to a large part of mainland Scotland NW of the Great Glen Fault, this 304-page guide (A5 size with Flexislip cover) to the Moine Supergroup is an extensively rewritten update of the previous edition with seven completely new excursions.

Following a concise summary of Moine geology, the 14 excursions (some multi-day, and all colour coded for ease of reference), contributed by 19 authors, are arranged geographically from the Ross of Mull in the SW to unique Moine occurrences near Durness in the NE; a total of 123 individually numbered locality descriptions and four transects are enhanced by 91 colour figures (mostly combined geology and locality maps or photographic structural close-ups). Six widely separated excursions visit localities within and adjacent to the Moine Thrust Zone, and four similarly far-flung excursions illustrate the Sgurr Beag Thrust and adjacent rocks. The less well known thrusts of North Sutherland (e.g. Naver, Torrisdale and Swordly thrusts) are also covered, together with the West Highland Granitic Gneiss and later Caledonian granites (e.g. the Cluanie and Vagastie Bridge granites) and a finale along the Great Glen Fault. To visit every locality in this guide using the recommended timingswould take nearly 4 weeks of solid excursion time!!

Readership: Undergraduate and postgraduate students, professional geologists and informed amateurs.

Full Price: £17.99 Members’ Price: £14.40 (P&P £1.95)

Discovering Edinburgh's Volcano - A geological guide to Holyrood Park Authors: D. H. Land & R. F. Cheeney ISBN: 0-904440-12-5

Full Price £1.50 GBP Member's Price £1.20 GBP

The 29 localities, each illustrated by a coloured photograph, depicted in this very colourful broadsheet (folded to a third of A4) constitute a 4 km circular tour around Holyrood Park and describe the geology of the 350 million-year-old (Early Carboniferous) volcano of Arthur's Seat together with its earlier sedimentary foundation and the later intrusive sill of Salisbury Craigs. Glacial features are also discussed and the text is complemented by 1:10,000 maps of the 'solid and drift' geology and topography, and by a geological panorama of the park. One of several side panels is devoted to James Hutton and his hugely influential 1785 book, The theory of the Earth.

Readership: Tourists, professional geologists, amateur geologists, undergraduate students.

Full Price: £1.50, Members Price: £1.20

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Minerals of Scotland - past and present Author: Alec Livingstone ISBN: 1-901663-46-9

A lavishly illustrated and definitive account (212 pp) by Alec Livingstone of Scotland's minerals that also includes 60 brief biographies of the people  who discovered, collated and examined them. The core of the book comprises a glossary of all 552 species known from Scotland together with more detailed descriptions, history and occurrence of 61 minerals native to Scotland. Published by the National Museums of Scotland (NMS), a limited number of copies are available from the Society at the discounted price below.

Readership: Mineralogists, amateur and professional geologists, gemmologists.

Price (members and non-members): £25.00. Sorry, not available by mail order.

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Building Stones of Edinburgh Authors: A. A. McMillan, R. J. Gillanders & J. A. Fairhurst ISBN: 0-904440-10-9

Full Price £10.00 GBP Members' Price £8.00 GBP

Edinburgh, 'Grey Athens of the North', owes much of its splendour to the quality of the sandstone from which most of its finest buildings are constructed. The Building Stones of Edinburgh focuses on the geological characteristics of these sandstones which were extracted from local quarries and includes within its pages examples of many of the fine buildings which have made Edinburgh famous.

Readership: Professional geologists, amateur geologists, undergraduate students, architects, civil engineers.

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Ardnamurchan - A guide to geological excursions  Editor: C. D. Gribble ISBN: 0-904440-02-8

Full Price £6.50 GBP Members' Price £5.20 GBP

This pocket sized geological field guide provides an introduction to the Tertiary igneous rocks of the spectacular Ardnamurchan peninsula of Scotland. The introductory chapters describe the various intrusive igneous rocks which are encountered, their age relationships and petrogenesis. Seven excursion itineraries cover the three main centres of igneous activity which are well exposed on the peninsula, as well as their metasedimentary country rocks and younger Mesozoic cover sequence.

Readership: Professional geologists, informed amateur geologists, undergraduate students.

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Assynt District of Sutherland - Geological excursion guide Authors: M. R. W. Johnson & I. Parsons ISBN: 0-904440-03-6

Full Price £5.50 GBP Members' Price £4.40 GBP

This updated version of Macgregor and Phemister’s original guide describes one of the classic areas of Scottish Geology. The most outstanding features of the geology of the Assynt area include the clear evidence of large-scale horizontal dislocations or thrusts which transported large sheets or nappes of rock towards the west, and the unconformable relationships between the Cambrian and Torridonian sedimentary rocks and the underlying Lewisian gneisses. The guide includes a brief summary of the geology of the region, written with special reference to the various localities visited during the 8 planned excursions, as well as a road log which covers the roadside exposures between Ullapool and Lochinver.

Readership: Professional geologists, amateur geologists, undergraduate students. 

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Ballachulish Igneous Complex and Aureole - a field guide Authors: D. R. M. Pattison & B. Harte ISBN: 0-904440-11-7

Full Price £9.50 GBP Members' Price £7.50 GBP

Describes the geology of probably one of the world’s most comprehensively studied igneous intrusions. The Ballachulish (pronounced Ba-la-HOO-lish) Igneous Complex is a relatively simple granitic intrusion which was emplaced into the Dalradian metasedimentary rocks approximately 400 to 430 million years ago. Illustrated with clear location maps, photographs, figures and a full colour geological map this excellent guide is highly recommended to anyone with an interest in the geology of igneous intrusions and their metamorphic aureoles. 

Readership: Professional geologists, amateur geologists, undergraduate students.

Full Price: £9.50 Members Price: £7.50 (P&P £1.95)

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Lothian Geology - An excursion guide Authors: A. D. McAdam & E. N. K. Clarkson ISBN: 0-904440-06-0

Full Price £10.00 GBP Members' Price £8.00 GBP

This Hutton Bicentenary (1996) edition of Lothian Geology describes the geological origins of some of the most famous landmarks in Central Scotland. These include the remnants of the c. 350 million year old volcano which forms the distinctive hill and crags of Arthur's Seat which dominates the Edinburgh skyline. The 20 excursions also visit a wide range of sedimentary and volcanic igneous rocks exposed in incised valleys, along the coast and highland areas of the Lothian district. 

Readership: Professional geologists, amateur geologists, undergraduate students, teachers.

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Fife and Angus Geology Author: A. R. MacGregor  ISBN: 1-85821-353-3

Full Price £13.00 GBP Members' Price £10.40 GBP

This guide describes the varied geology of the Fife and Angus region (Central Scotland), ranging from the metamorphic rocks of the Southern Highlands to the sedimentary and volcanic rocks of Devonian and Carboniferous age. Illustrated with maps, plates and figures this compact guide contains 18 itineraries which visit both coastal and inland sites which are of interest to geologists of all levels.

Readership: Professional geologists, amateur geologists, undergraduate students, teachers.

Full Price: £13.00 Members Price: £10.40 (P&P £1.95)

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Geology in southwest Scotland - An excursion guide Editor: P. Stone ISBN: 0-85272-261-3

Full Price £10.00 GBP Members' Price £8.00 GBP

This excursion guide is the first to detail the varied geology of south-west Scotland and is dedicated to the memory of Dr Byron Lintern (British Geological Survey). It contains an introduction to the geology of the Southern Uplands of Scotland, which records the presence and eventual closure of a long vanished ocean known as Iapetus. The 18 excursion itineraries describe examples of the geological features and structures developed within this Ordovician to Silurian sedimentary sequence as well as the later Criffle-Dalbeattie and Cairnsmore of Fleet granite intrusions. 

Readership: Professional geologists, amateur geologists, undergraduate students.

Full Price: £10.00 Members Price: £8.00 (P&P £1.95)

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