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• 12:32, 13 April 2015 Dbk talk contribs uploaded File:14014 fig5.jpg
• 12:30, 13 April 2015 Dbk talk contribs uploaded File:14014 fig4.jpg
• 12:29, 13 April 2015 Dbk talk contribs uploaded File:14014 fig3.png
• 12:26, 13 April 2015 Dbk talk contribs uploaded File:14014 fig2.jpg
• 12:26, 13 April 2015 Dbk talk contribs uploaded File:14014 fig1.jpg
• 15:02, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000102.jpg (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...)
• 15:02, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000096.jpg (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...)
• 15:00, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000095.jpg (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...)
• 14:59, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000092.jpg (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...)
• 14:55, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000097.jpg (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...)
• 14:52, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000100.jpg (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).)
• 14:48, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuidingStonesEdinburghTools.jpg (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...)
• 13:03, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P001607.jpg (A modern working flagstone quarry showing the flat beds excavated for pavement.)
• 13:00, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000050.jpg (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...)
• 12:56, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000183.jpg (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...)
• 12:47, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghGVSStrathclydeGroup.jpg (Generalized vertical sections in the Strathclyde Group of Lothian and Fife.)
• 12:45, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghStartigraphySandstonesEngland.jpg (The stratigraphy of sandstones from England and the Scottish Borders used in Edinburgh's buildings.)
• 12:43, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghStratigraphyOfScottishSandstones.jpg (The stratigraphy of sandstones from England and the Scottish Borders used in Edinburgh's buildings.)
• 12:42, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghLocationOfQuarries.jpg (General locations of building stone quarries in Scotland and northern England Lettered squares represent Ordnance Survey 100 km National Grid.)
• 12:40, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghGeology.jpg (Edinburgh and neighbourhood: geology and sandstone quarries.)
• 10:29, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghBallochmyleQuarryExplanation.jpg (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....)
• 10:26, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghSectionThroughSandDune.jpg (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...)
• 10:21, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghSEdimentaryStructures2.jpg (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...)
• 10:20, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghSedimentaryStructure1.jpg (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...)
• 10:18, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghGrainSorting.jpg (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).)
• 10:17, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghGrainRoundness.jpg (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).)
• 10:03, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghBedThicknessTerminology.jpg (Terminology of bed thickness and typical architecture use.)
• 10:01, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:BuildingStonesEdinburghGrainsizeScheme.jpg (A scale of grade and class terms for clastic sediments. Based on Wentworth, C.K. 1922. Geological Journal Vol 30 377-392.)
• 09:21, 12 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000071.jpg (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...)
• 23:16, 11 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P000072.jpg (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...)
• 23:02, 11 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P216874.jpg (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...)
• 22:13, 11 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P526466.jpg (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...)
• 22:09, 11 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P519528.jpg (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...)
• 19:08, 11 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P521148.jpg (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...)
• 19:03, 11 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P005979.jpg (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.)
• 20:06, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandCarboniferousFossils.jpg (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....)
• 20:04, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandUpperCarboniferousStratigraphy.jpg (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.)
• 20:02, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandLowerCarboniferousStratigraphy.jpg (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.)
• 20:00, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandUpperPalaeozoicGeology.jpg (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.)
• 19:58, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandDepositionalEnvironments.jpg (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.)
• 19:56, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:Fig 06.jpg (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.)
• 19:54, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandOrdovicianSilurianBiozones.jpg (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...)
• 19:51, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:Fig 04.jpg (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...)
• 19:49, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandFoldStyle.jpg (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.)
• 19:48, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandStratigraphicalRelationships.jpg (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.)
• 19:46, 7 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:SWScotlandLowerPalaeozoicGeology.jpg (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.)
• 22:42, 4 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:MelroseAbbeySandstone.jpg (Melrose Abbey.)
• 22:26, 4 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P757470.jpg (The Mam Tor landslide: the Turn Pike Road damaded by the landslide.)
• 22:22, 4 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P518014.jpg (Burley on the Hill House, rockery drystone wall.)
• 22:13, 4 April 2015 Scotfot talk contribs uploaded File:P001519.jpg (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...)