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| 12:16, 13 April 2015 | 14014appendix5.jpg (file) |  |
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| 11:37, 13 April 2015 | 14014 fig9.jpg (file) |  |
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| 14:02, 12 April 2015 | P000102.jpg (file) |  |
140 KB | Scotfot | Corsehill Quarry, Annan. Dumfriesshire. New section of quarry. Just after a blast loosened blocks are being raised to surface using a chain sling. Note the differential weathering, the hard sandstones stand proud while the interbedded fine-grained silt... | 1 |
| 14:02, 12 April 2015 | P000096.jpg (file) |  |
121 KB | Scotfot | Corsehill Quarry, Annan. Dumfriesshire. At the surface, a raised block is measured up and made ready for the dressing yard. Four quarrymen are seen working on the block. Blocks of various sizes are stored around including one on a bogie. The bogie is a... | 1 |
| 14:00, 12 April 2015 | P000095.jpg (file) |  |
173 KB | Scotfot | Locharbriggs Quarry. Dumfriesshire. A close-up showing the 'shot-grove' and chisel wedge method of splitting stone. Widely spaced holes are drilled and filled with black powder; once blown and the blocks dislodged, chisel wedges are driven in along pla... | 1 |
| 13:59, 12 April 2015 | P000092.jpg (file) |  |
181 KB | Scotfot | Locharbriggs Quarry, Dumfries. This photograph shows a general view of the working face. The sandstone was worked 'against the dip'. Situated at the top of the quarry is a regiment of modern electrically powered cranes with steel lattice jibs capable o... | 1 |
| 13:55, 12 April 2015 | P000097.jpg (file) |  |
105 KB | Scotfot | Corsehill Quarry, Annan. In the dressing yard masons are shown at work using mells (wooden mallets) and chisels on the stone. Note that many of the blocks were sawn and that the small holes cut in the faces were used for gripping the block with dogs an... | 1 |
| 13:52, 12 April 2015 | P000100.jpg (file) |  |
138 KB | Scotfot | Corncockle Quarry, Lochmaben. The close up shows use of the chisel wedge method to split the stone to the required dimensions. BGS Photograph C3606, P000100. (1937). | 1 |
| 13:48, 12 April 2015 | BuidingStonesEdinburghTools.jpg (file) |  |
214 KB | Scotfot | Hand implements used in stone working. Adapted from Merrill, G R Stones for Building and Decoration. (1910, New York: John Wiley & Sons) 1. Tooth chisel used on soft stone 2. Chisel or drove 3 Chisel used on soft stone and driven with wooden mallet... | 1 |
| 12:03, 12 April 2015 | P001607.jpg (file) |  |
144 KB | Scotfot | A modern working flagstone quarry showing the flat beds excavated for pavement. | 1 |
| 12:00, 12 April 2015 | P000050.jpg (file) |  |
139 KB | Scotfot | Huntershill Quarry, Bishopbriggs The Bishopbriggs Sandstone was quarried and mined in Huntershill Quarry, Bishopbriggs. The sandstone is developed as two units, the lower part 18m thick and the upper part 14m. Mining by the stoop and room (pillar and s... | 1 |
| 11:56, 12 April 2015 | P000183.jpg (file) |  |
124 KB | Scotfot | Hailes Quarry, Slateford, Edinburgh. General view of the quarry looking north, with the tramway bridge (not shown on the Ordnance Survey 25 inch County map, 1914 edition) and steam pumping engine in middle distance. Corstorphine Hill and Donaldson's Ho... | 1 |
| 11:47, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghGVSStrathclydeGroup.jpg (file) |  |
139 KB | Scotfot | Generalized vertical sections in the Strathclyde Group of Lothian and Fife. | 1 |
| 11:45, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghStartigraphySandstonesEngland.jpg (file) |  |
249 KB | Scotfot | The stratigraphy of sandstones from England and the Scottish Borders used in Edinburgh's buildings. | 1 |
| 11:43, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghStratigraphyOfScottishSandstones.jpg (file) |  |
488 KB | Scotfot | The stratigraphy of sandstones from England and the Scottish Borders used in Edinburgh's buildings. | 1 |
| 11:42, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghLocationOfQuarries.jpg (file) |  |
278 KB | Scotfot | General locations of building stone quarries in Scotland and northern England Lettered squares represent Ordnance Survey 100 km National Grid. | 1 |
| 11:40, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghGeology.jpg (file) |  |
502 KB | Scotfot | Edinburgh and neighbourhood: geology and sandstone quarries. | 1 |
| 09:29, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghBallochmyleQuarryExplanation.jpg (file) |  |
86 KB | Scotfot | Part of a former very large dune composed of smaller migrating dunes. The three large wedges are bounded by 2nd order bounding surfaces. The surfaces represent a period of time when the underlying dune was eroded, prior to deposition of the next dune.... | 1 |
| 09:26, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghSectionThroughSandDune.jpg (file) |  |
186 KB | Scotfot | Sedimentary structures: section through an idealised large wind-blown sand dune Adapted from Brookfield, M E. 1977. The origin of bounding surfaces in ancient aeolian sandstones. Sedimentology, 24, 303.332; Brookfield, M E. 1979. Anatomy of a Lower Per... | 1 |
| 09:21, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghSEdimentaryStructures2.jpg (file) |  |
78 KB | Scotfot | Sedimentary structures: the development of cross bedding in a water flow. Adapted from the Open University Science Foundation Course units 26 and 27 Earth History land 11 (1971, Milton Keynes: The Open University) and Bunyan et al., Building Stones of... | 1 |
| 09:20, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghSedimentaryStructure1.jpg (file) |  |
57 KB | Scotfot | Sedimentary structures: the development of cross bedding in a water flow. Adapted from the Open University Science Foundation Course units 26 and 27 Earth History land 11 (1971, Milton Keynes: The Open University) and Bunyan et al., Building Stones of... | 1 |
| 09:18, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghGrainSorting.jpg (file) |  |
254 KB | Scotfot | Degree of sorting and suitability for mortar Adapted from Sedimentary rocks in the field: Geological Society Handbook by M E Tucker, 2nd edition (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1996). | 1 |
| 09:17, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghGrainRoundness.jpg (file) |  |
203 KB | Scotfot | Categories of roundness for sediment grains and suitability for mortar Adapted from Sedimentary rocks in the field: Geological Society Handbook by M E Tucker, 2nd edition (Chichester: John Wiley and Sons Ltd., 1996). | 1 |
| 09:03, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghBedThicknessTerminology.jpg (file) |  |
220 KB | Scotfot | Terminology of bed thickness and typical architecture use. | 1 |
| 09:01, 12 April 2015 | BuildingStonesEdinburghGrainsizeScheme.jpg (file) |  |
178 KB | Scotfot | A scale of grade and class terms for clastic sediments. Based on Wentworth, C.K. 1922. Geological Journal Vol 30 377-392. | 1 |
| 08:21, 12 April 2015 | P000071.jpg (file) |  |
254 KB | Scotfot | Ballochmyle Quarry, Mauchline. Ayrshire. New Red Sandstone (Permian) red desert sandstones showing large-scale aeolian (wind-blown) dune-bedding. The huge size of the quarry is indicated by using the figures for scale - often over 64 m. deep. Access to... | 1 |
| 22:16, 11 April 2015 | P000072.jpg (file) |  |
339 KB | Scotfot | Ballochmyle Quarry, Mauchline. Ayrshire. Permian red desert sandstones showing large-scale aeolian (wind-blown) dune-bedding. A close-up of C02912. The view shows five quarrymen standing in front of the working face. The dune-bedding is composed of thr... | 1 |
| 22:02, 11 April 2015 | P216874.jpg (file) |  |
251 KB | Scotfot | Water-lain sandstone in Hailes Quarry, Slateford, Edinburgh. The fresh surfaces of rock clearly demonstrate characteristic wispy, black, carbonaceous, ripple laminae, a feature frequently seen in buildings constructed of this stone. The tools used incl... | 1 |
| 21:13, 11 April 2015 | P526466.jpg (file) |  |
93 KB | Scotfot | Specimen of Craigleith sandstone, Craigleith Quarry, Edinburgh, Lothian Region. Sample of Craigleith Sandstone from the building stone collection of the Edinburgh World Heritage Trust. The stone has a cut surface with a very pale buff colour with varia... | 1 |
| 21:09, 11 April 2015 | P519528.jpg (file) |  |
76 KB | Scotfot | Rock specimen of sandstone from Hailes Quarry, Edinburgh, Lothian Region, Scotland. Oblique view of sample block of Hailes sandstone showing hand-polished faces and name of quarry cut into the stone. This specimen is of Carboniferous age. British Geolo... | 1 |
| 18:08, 11 April 2015 | P521148.jpg (file) |  |
200 KB | Scotfot | A fossil specimen of Monograptus convolutus Hisinger, 1837. A fossil graptolite. (Graptolithina.) 236 metres due north of bridge over Barntimpen Burn, Dumfriesshire, Scotland.This specimen of Monograptus convolutus is from the Llandovery, convolutus Bi... | 1 |
| 18:03, 11 April 2015 | P005979.jpg (file) |  |
255 KB | Scotfot | Whitehouse Shore, 3 km. S. of Girvan (Ardmillan Lodge in background). Turbidite sequence. General view (looking east-north-east) of thin-bedded turbidite sequence, Lower Whitehouse Group. Way-up is to the left-hand side. P005979. | 1 |
| 19:06, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandCarboniferousFossils.jpg (file) |  |
871 KB | Scotfot | Figure 9 A selection of characteristic Carboniferous fossils. a. ''Latiproductus latissimus ''(Sowerby) x 1. b, c. ''Syringothyris cuspidata ''(Sowerby) x 1/2 , dorsal valve and posterior view. d, e. ''Lithostrotion ''sp. x 1/2 with cross-section x l.... | 1 |
| 19:04, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandUpperCarboniferousStratigraphy.jpg (file) |  |
264 KB | Scotfot | Upper Carboniferous and Permian statigraphy in south-west Scotland. Table 2 from Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 19:02, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandLowerCarboniferousStratigraphy.jpg (file) |  |
335 KB | Scotfot | Lower Carboniferous stratigraphy, northern margin of the Solway Basin Table 1 from Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
