Some Photos from our Regional Geology (Geology 210) Field Trip to
the British Isles - May, 1995
Scotland
Photos by Russ Clark.
Click on any photo to see a full-sized version.
Mike Leopold looking east through the pass
at Glen Coe, Scotland
Tertiary Volcanics at Glen Coe, Scotland
(near the Clachaig Inn)
Larry Taylor describing some stream
dynamics in the Scottish Highlands
Bill Bartels, Heidi Orloff, and Alainya
Heldt enjoying a tea break at the train museum near Glenfinnan, South Morar Peninsula,
Scotland
Urquhart Castle on the west side of Loch
Ness (and trace of the Great Glen Fault)
Downie Point; south side of the harbor at
Stonehaven, Scotland (through a somewhat bleary Marine Hotel window)
Very coarse Devonian conglomerate within
the Old Red Sandstone (note pencil, lower center, for scale); Downie Point, south side of
the harbor at Stonehaven, Scotland
Siccar Point, SE Scotland; the site of
Hutton's "Great Unconformity".
Russ Clark points out the unconformity at
Siccar Point. Ordovician shales and slates overlain by younger Devonian Old Red Sandstone.
Soft sediment deformation in Ordovician
flysch deposits. Turbidites, greywackes, and shales in the Ardwell Formation. Outcrop is
about 2.5 meters high. 3 miles south of Girvan, Ayreshire coast, SW Scotland.
Ordovician pillow lavas at Downan Point;
part of Ballantrae Ophiolite Complex. 3 miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire coast, SW
Scotland. Note that the pillows are upside-down!
Close-up of Ordovician pillow lavas at
Downan Point; part of Ballantrae Ophiolite Complex. 3 miles south of Ballantrae, Ayrshire
coast, SW Scotland. Note that the pillows are upside-down!
Turnberry lighthouse and the Isle of Arran
at dusk (Photo by Ian Clark)
And what would a trip to Scotland be
without ... a visit to the holiest of hallowed grounds ... the 18th at the Old Course, St.
Andrews.
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