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 | A
geological excursion guide to the North-west Highlands of ScotlandEditors:
Kathryn Goodenough and Maarten Krabbendam ISBN: 978-1-905267-53-8 | |
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
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Geological Excursion Guide to Rum Authors: C. H. Emeleus & V. R. Troll ISBN:
978-1-905267-22-4 (joint publication with National Museums Scotland) | |
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. Full
Price: £12.99 Members Price: £10.40 (P&P £1.95) |  | An
excursion guide to the Moine Geology of the Northern Highlands of ScotlandAuthors:
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) | |
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) |
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Discovering
Edinburgh's Volcano - A geological guide to Holyrood Park Authors:
D. H. Land & R. F. Cheeney ISBN: 0-904440-12-5 | |
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
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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 | |
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. Full
Price: £10.00 Members Price: £8.00 (P&P £1.95) >>
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Ardnamurchan
- A guide to geological excursions Editor: C. D. Gribble ISBN: 0-904440-02-8 | |
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. Full
Price: £6.50 Members Price: £5.20 (P&P £1.95) >>
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Assynt
District of Sutherland - Geological excursion guide Authors: M. R.
W. Johnson & I. Parsons ISBN: 0-904440-03-6 | |
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. Full Price: £5.50 Members
Price: £4.40 (P&P £1.95) >>
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Ballachulish
Igneous Complex and Aureole - a field guide Authors: D. R. M. Pattison
& B. Harte ISBN: 0-904440-11-7 | |
Describes the geology of probably one of the
worlds 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 | |
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. Full
Price: £10.00 Members Price: £8.00 (P&P £1.95) >>
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Fife
and Angus Geology Author: A. R. MacGregor ISBN: 1-85821-353-3 | |
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 | |
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
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