Excursions - Week & Weekend

Each year, the Society organises two residential excursions - a week-long excursion in May, and a weekend excursion in the summer.

Long Excursion 2012

The 2012 Long Excursion will be to the Isle of Mull, and the leader will be Dr John Faithfull of the Hunterian Museum in Glasgow, who is the author of the forthcoming excursion guide to
Mull.

The excursion dates are Saturday 26 May to Saturday 2 June 2012, which is a little later than usual. Accommodation has been booked in the Isle of Mull Hotel and self-catering in Craignure Bay House, both at Craignure, where there is also a camp site. Costs are likely to be similar to the 2011 excursion, depending of course on the number of participants. Anyone interested should please let me know by e-mailing me at anne.burgess@btinternet.com or by writing to 21 Woodside Place,
Fochabers IV32 7HE. The excursion is fully booked, but you can join the waiting list.

Anne Burgess
Long Excursion Organiser

Weekend Excursion 2012

The 2012 Weekend Excursion will be to the Isle of Arran and the leader will be Prof Stuart Monro of Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh. Stuart originally worked for the British Geological Survey and for many years was an Open University tutor. The excursion dates are Friday, 14 September to Monday, 17 September. If you are interested, please contact Lilian D'Mello at lilian@edinburghgeolsoc.org for more information.

The geology of Arran represents the geological history of Scotland in miniature. It provides the opportunity to delve into rocks of almost every age and to explore both a wide range of sedimentary environments and examine igneous processes that have produced some fascinating rock types. It is an opportunity to examine the Dalradian metamorphic rocks in the northern part of the island and to walk in the footsteps of James Hutton, the Father of Modern Geology who revealed the significance of the unconformity on the north-east of the island near Lochranza in 1787. The island is dominated by Goat Fell, a granite intrusion and the eroded remnant of a volcano associated with the opening of the Atlantic Ocean. The landscape of the island has been carved by the movement of ice over the last 2 million years leaving an island which is undoubtedly a geologist's paradise.

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Reports of previous excursions: 2002 excursions to the Isle of Arran and Cromarty 2003 excursions to the Isle of Eigg and Ballantrae

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