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| 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 |
| 19:00, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandUpperPalaeozoicGeology.jpg (file) |  |
452 KB | Scotfot | Principal features of Upper Palaeozoic geology in south-west Scotland. Figure 8 from Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 18:58, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandDepositionalEnvironments.jpg (file) |  |
185 KB | Scotfot | Depositional environments on a submarine fan. Figure 7 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 18:56, 7 April 2015 | Fig 06.jpg (file) |  |
221 KB | Scotfot | Divisions within an idealised turbidite bed after Bouma (1962) and Pickering et al. (1989). Figure 6 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 18:54, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandOrdovicianSilurianBiozones.jpg (file) |  |
341 KB | Scotfot | The sequence of Ordovician and Silurian graprolite biozones present in south-west Scotland, with line-drawings of selected graptolites, arranged in stratigraphical order. The graprolites are approximately x 1, and the species are: a. ''Nemagmptus graci... | 1 |
| 18:51, 7 April 2015 | Fig 04.jpg (file) |  |
200 KB | Scotfot | Summary of information used to establish controls on the timing of Caledonian deformation in the Southern Uplands (cf. Barnes et al., 1989, fig. 1). Figure 4 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, N... | 1 |
| 18:49, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandFoldStyle.jpg (file) |  |
247 KB | Scotfot | Variable fold style developed within an idealised thrust sequence: examples are seen in the Southern Uplands. Figure 3 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 18:48, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandStratigraphicalRelationships.jpg (file) |  |
396 KB | Scotfot | Schematic representation of stratigraphical relationships in south-west Scotland. Figure 2 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 18:46, 7 April 2015 | SWScotlandLowerPalaeozoicGeology.jpg (file) |  |
570 KB | Scotfot | Principal features of Lower Palaeozoic geology in south-west Scotland. Figure 1 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 21:42, 4 April 2015 | MelroseAbbeySandstone.jpg (file) |  |
167 KB | Scotfot | Melrose Abbey. | 1 |
| 21:26, 4 April 2015 | P757470.jpg (file) |  |
118 KB | Scotfot | The Mam Tor landslide: the Turn Pike Road damaded by the landslide. | 1 |
| 21:22, 4 April 2015 | P518014.jpg (file) |  |
212 KB | Scotfot | Burley on the Hill House, rockery drystone wall. | 1 |
| 21:13, 4 April 2015 | P001519.jpg (file) |  |
161 KB | Scotfot | The former Blindwells Opencast Site, north-east of Tranent, East Lothian. The view shows in the centre, a crawler loader loading dump trucks. In the distance on the left is a large drag-line excavator and barely visible, a face-shovel rope excavator. G... | 1 |
| 20:30, 4 April 2015 | SWScotlandMetalliferousMineralization.jpg (file) |  |
311 KB | Scotfot | Location of significant metalliferous mineralisation in south-west Scotland. Full details are listed in Table 5 from Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 17:24, 4 April 2015 | P001528.jpg (file) |  |
151 KB | Scotfot | Pibble Mine engine house, 5 km. east-north-east of Creetown, on the north-west slope of Pibble Hill, Kirkudbrightshire. A former lead-zinc mine that worked a four-feet wide vein trending 20 degrees north of west and hading to the west at from 75 to 80... | 1 |
| 17:20, 4 April 2015 | P527559.jpg (file) |  |
211 KB | Scotfot | A specimen of arsenopyrite, an iron arsenic sulphide from Talnotry about six miles south-west of Newton Stewart. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7339. An old abandoned mine is located on the west side of Palnure Burn 250... | 1 |
| 17:14, 4 April 2015 | P527659.jpg (file) |  |
163 KB | Scotfot | Haematite from Auchenleck, Kirkudbrightshire. At Auchenleck, about five miles east of the town of Kirkcudbright a haematite vein occurs in the Dalbeattie granite mass. British Geological Survey Petrology Collection sample number MC 7439. The trend of t... | 1 |
| 14:06, 4 April 2015 | SouthwestScotlandGraptoliteExamples1.jpg (file) |  |
397 KB | Scotfot | Examples of some of the Ordovician graptolites found in south-west Scotland. # ''Dicellograptus anceps ''(Nicholson) ''anceps ''Biozone. # ''Orthograptus abbreviatus ''Elles & Wood chiefly ''anceps ''Biozone. # ''Climacograptus supernus ''Elles & Wood... | 1 |
| 13:31, 4 April 2015 | SWScotlandGraptolitesGillespieBurnExcursionMap.jpg (file) |  |
277 KB | Scotfot | Locality map for Gillespie Burn (Locality 6). Figure 66 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 13:29, 4 April 2015 | SWScotlandGraptolites.jpg (file) |  |
304 KB | Scotfot | Figure 65 Locality map for Clanyard Bay and Grennan quarries (Locality 5) Figure 65 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 13:26, 4 April 2015 | SWScotlandGraptolitesDrumbreddenBayExcursionMap.jpg (file) |  |
466 KB | Scotfot | Locality map and geological cross-section for Drumbreddan Bay (Locality 4). Figure 64 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 13:24, 4 April 2015 | SWScotlandGraptolitesMorrochBayExcursionMap.jpg (file) |  |
327 KB | Scotfot | Locality map for Morroch Bay (Locality 3) Figure 63 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 13:22, 4 April 2015 | SWScotlandGraptolitesKilfeddarExcursionMap.jpg (file) |  |
390 KB | Scotfot | Locality map for Loup of Kilfeddar (Locality 2) From: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 13:14, 4 April 2015 | SWScotlandGraptolitesGlenkilnBurnExcursionMap.jpg (file) |  |
166 KB | Scotfot | Locality map for Glenkiln Burn (Locality 1). Figure 61 from: Stone, P (editor). 1996. Geology in south-west Scotland: an excursion guide. Keyworth, Nottingham: British Geological Survey. | 1 |
| 13:12, 4 April 2015 | SWScotlandGraptolitesSuccessionMoffatShales.jpg (file) |  |
170 KB | Scotfot | General succession of the Moffat Shale Group, correlated with the sequence of graprolite biozones (Figure 5). Note that whereas Gala unit 7 overlies the highest Birkhill Shales, units I-G are laterally equivalent to the Birkhill Shales; The Leadhills G... | 1 |
