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| Study of the Arthur's Seat Volcano.* By R. H. Clark, M.Sc, Ph.D., F.G.S.,f Grant Institute of Geology...Geology, University of Edinburgh. Communicated by Professor ARTHUR HOLMES, F.E.S. (With Five Text-figures.)...separately May 7, 1956) SYNOPSIS AETHUB'S SEAT is the remains of a dissected Lower Carboniferous volcano...from which were erupted a series of basaltic rocks representative of the province to which it belongs...lavas, intrusions and tuffs, and include basalts of Dalmeny, Jedburgh, Dunsapie, Craiglockhart and Markle |
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| /~ ..... ~. <~~ .., .. , ..... J l DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC GEOLOGICAL GUIDE AND INDUSTRIAL SURVEY... TO IN GEOLOGICAL AND EXCURSION AROUND EDINBURGH By A. G. MACGREGOR, M~c., B.sc. and · J. E....M.c., B.A., sc.n. Crown Copyrightreseroed EDINBURGH HIS MAJESTY'S STATIONERY OFr'lCE ' RESEAR·CH..., • \ . . EDINBURGH ' EXCURSION GUIDE INTRODUCTION The area around Edinburgh is well known to...to geologists for the variety of its igneous rocks,. for the wealth of sections in the Palreozoic sediments |
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| !IE!IOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURV SCOTLAND. DESC]{IP'l'ION OF A l{ 'l' H U l{'S SEA 'l' VOLCANO SY ...EDINHlJHGil: PU.L."i"Tl•:r, L'NDl�H Tl'JI� .l.CTI-HlHl'l'Y OF' HTS MA.lEST)'."S :STATlO.'... • �I�JMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGCCAL SURVEY, SCO'fLAND. I) E S C R I P 'f I O N OF SEAT BY B. N. PEAOH...STREET, DURLIN; OJlY or !rom .\gent for the sale of Qrclot1nre Sur,·ey 1'1al)s; or tlu·ough any Boolr�eller...account of the Geology of Arthur's Seat is a reprint, with slight alterations, of the description of the |
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| 222 EDINBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. XIII;—On the Structure and Arrangement of the Bocks of Arthur's Seat...HENDERSON, Curator of the Society's Museum. (Read 18th March 1879. PART I.—REVIEW OF THE DIFFERENT THEORIES...THEORIES REGARDING THE FORMATION OF THE HILL. That remarkable group of hills, crags, and valleys included...Queen's Park of Edinburgh, and often collectively termed Arthur's Seat, has been a fruitful source of interest...to geologists. Charles Maclaren, in his " Geology of Fife and the Lothians," has made the hill classic |
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| STRUCTURE AND AGE OF ARTHUR'S SEAT, EDINBURGII. 131 10. On the STaUCrUR~ and Ae~. of ARTHUR'S SEA~, EDINBURaR...remarkable group of hills on the outskirts of the city of Edinburgh, and is aware of the important part...controversies of Neptunists and Plutonists, of Huttonians and Wernerians. In discussing the origin of certain...certain of the phenomena presented at Arthur's Seat, and the evidence which these afford of the period of its...contributions to our knowledge of the geology of the hill which are to be found in the works of the older controversial |
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| a number of localities in the Carboniferous lavas of the Midland Valley. This structure is of deformational...in olivine-basalts of Calciferous Sandstone age in the Midland Valley of Scotland, in the following widely...intrusive plug, three-quarters of a mile north of the northern edge of the western Kilpatrick Hills lavas...south-western end of the Kilpatrick Hills ; (c) in the Whinny Hill intrusion ; and (d) in the Lion's Haunch vent intrusion...intrusion, both of Arthur's Seat volcano, Edinburgh. The Whinny Hill intrusion is a basalt of Craiglockhart |
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| "Proceedings of the Liverpool Geological Society," Vol. iii., pt. 3; from that Society. " Transactions of the...xiv., pts. 18, 19; from that Society. "Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society...from that Society. "Abstracts of the Proceedings of the Geological Society of London," Nos. 353-4; from that...Quarterly Journal of the Geological Society of London," No. 134; from that Society. "Bulletin of the United...iv., No.2; from Dr. F. V. Hayden. "Journal of the Society of Arts," Nos. 1329-32 ; from that Society. The |
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| FLETT. CHAPTER III. THE KING'S PARK AND ARTHUR'S SEAT. By]. S. FLETT, M.A., D.Se., LL.D., F.R.S.,...non-geological observer it is fairly obvious that Arthur's Seat is a hill of volcanic origin, but few are aware that...volcanoes. Two of these had their craters at the point which is now the Lion's Head or the summit of the hill;...hill; the neck of the filled-up crater of the third one is situated on the slope behind Salisbury Craigs...Craigs. It will be convenient for the purpose of description to consider the King's Park as divisible into |
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| compiled and edited by Fellows of the Edinburgh Geological Society1 gives details of twenty excursions which...half-day frorn Edinburgh. The excursions have been chosen to illustrate the principal features of the solid...solid and super£cial geology of a wide area of Southern Scotland which is extren1ely rich in geological interest...Ulustrations in the fonn of photographs and sketch rnaps grefdy enhance the practical value of the guide which...visito s to the area. 1 r Price 18/•NEl ' EDINBURGH GEOLOGY Digitized by the Internet Archive in |
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| ON TIlE CO) I P AR AT I VE AGES OF THE "Journal of th e Society of Arts," Novemb er, 1876; from that...Author. " Taylor's Cal endar of the Meetings of th e Sci entific Bodies of London for 1876-7 ;" from Messrs...and Francis. Th e following were elected Members of the As sociation : William 1. Balston, E sq., F.G...AGES OF THE ILL UST RATED AND FIFE, AND BY TIlE ENGLISH THE AND GEOLO GY STRUCTURE OF S COTTI...COTTI SH OF THE AR.THUR'S SEAT. By A NDR EW TAYLOR , ESQ., F.C.S. Th e na tural sections in and around |
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| OFFICE To be purchased from 13A Castle Street, Edinburgh 2 York House, Kingsway, London w.c.2 423 Oxford... DEPARTMENT OF SCIENTIFIC AND INDUSTRIAL RESEARCH MEMOIRS OF THE GEOLOGICAL SURVEY SCOTLAND The Geology...Geology of the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh • By G. H. MITCHELL, D.Sc., F.R.S. and W. MYKURA, B.Sc. with...THIRD EDITION EDINBURGH: HER M AJESTY'S STATIONERY OFFICE 1962 • Geology of Edinburgh (3rd Edit.) Mem... Surv. PLATE I (FrontisJJiece) • • ARTHUR�S SEAT AND SALISBURY CRAlGS FROM CALTON HILL (0475-476) |
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| R . C . S C , F.G.S., Assistant to the Professor of Geology, Glasgow University. [Read 11th January,...Hills form one of the elevated plateaux of volcanic rocks which diversify the great plain of the Midland...Midland Valley of Scotland. They are situated 9 miles north-west of Glasgow, partly in Dumbartonshire and partly...the narrow valley of the Clyde at Bowling, and by the Leven valley. On the other side of the Clyde is a...plateau of the same rocks, which, however, further to the west, culminates in the high ground of Misty |
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| (1927), PLATE 14~ [PllJtQ oy R. Lunn, A.-ARTHUR'S SEAT AND SALISBURY CRAIGS FROM BLACKFORD HILL...(See page 421.) [Photo by R. LlI1m. B.-CONTACT OF DOLERITE AND SALISBURY CRAIGS. UPPER OLD RED ...422.) To face pag« 405 THE GEOLOGY OF THE DISTRICT AROUND EDINBURGH. New Edition, 1927. INCLUDING GULLANE...NEIGH130U~ OF EDINBURGH. i. General Account of the District i i, Geology of the City of Edinburgh iii. The...The King s Park and Arthur's Seat. By Sir J. S. Flett, KB.E., F.R.S., etc. iv. The Pentland Hills. By |
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| IGNEOUS ROCKS 24. On the IGNEOUSROCKS Of the SOUT~ of the ISLE of MAN. By BE~Am~ Ho~so~, Esq., M.Sc., F...Main Features of the Geology of the District .............................. III. Types of Igneous Rocks................. ] Y. Detailed Description of the Geology of Scarlet Point, &c. . . . . . . . . . . . .... Y. Macroscopical and Microscopical Characters of the Rocks ............ (a) The Diabase Series. (b)...0 U S Lrrma, TuRE. THOUGH the igneous rocks of the Isle of Man have been cursorily described by Berger |
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| lyellcollection.org/ at University of Toronto on March 7, 2015 264 EDINBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. XYII.—Notes...—Notes on the Petrology of Arthur's Seat. By TAYLOR, F.C.S., Associate. ANDREW (Read 20th May 1879.)...controversy recently raised as to the structure and age of this hill by Professor Judd, has been characterised...structure of a single or double volcanic neck, given in the various published diagrams of Arthur's Seat, also...identical with modern lavas, only of a submarine origin. The absence of sulphur from the neighbourhood, |
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| VI. PI. VI. PLANT REGAINS FF^OM BO'NESS IN BASALT COALFIELD. Downloaded from http://trned.lyellcollection...Occurrence of Plant Remains in Olivine Basalt in the Bo'ness Coalfield. By HENRY M . CADELL of Grange, B...February 1891.) I N a paper which I read before the Edinburgh Geological Society on 26th January 1880, and which...stratigraphical account is given of the extensive series of interbedded volcanic rocks of the Bo'ness Coalfield...some new facts of considerable geological interest have been elicited in the course of mining and quarrying |
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| A., D.Se. The stretch of Carboniferous rocks occupying the southern half of Fife is by far the most...examination of the diverse types of rock included in the series is afforded by the almost unbroken line of exposures...exposures on the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. In the area around Kirkcaldy the main structures...continuations of the Midlothian syncline and Pentland anticline of the Edinburgh district. In the heart of the...the former flexure beds of Coal Measure age occur, and several important seams of coal are extensively worked |
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| [University of Cambridge] at 16:06 17 June 2016 MAGAZINE. THE PHYSIOGRAPHICAL EVOLUTION OF THE MIDLOTHIAN...Fellow of the University of Edinburgh, Lecturer in Geology in Armstrong College, University of Durham...) FOR lack of permanent records, the early history of our race is lost in the mists of the past; in...in the study of the development of our landscapes, the solid rocks from which they have been hewn take...take us back millions of years before the human period, and yet we can probe into their story only so far |
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| lyellcollection.org/ at University of Georgia on May 25, 2015 40 EDINBURGH GEOLOGICAL SOCIETY. VI.—Some...Observations on the Long Row and the Dasses, Arthur's Seat By T. C U T H B E R T D A Y , F.C.S. (With three...conspicuous escarpment among the volcanic series of Arthur's Seat, known as the Long Row or Well Crag, has afforded...continua tion of this same rock on the other side of what is now known as the vent of the comparatively...Carboniferous times at this place. The relationship of the Long Row and of its prolongation, the Loch Craig, to the |
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| H. M. Cadell—Plant-remains in Basalt, Bo'ness. The late Mr. F . A. Fouque, describing some phenomena...(trans.): " The lava of the 1865 eruption flowed through the midst of a wood of lofty trees. . . . Many...great number of them remained standing on each side of the fissure, in spite of the movements of the ground...ground and in spite of the incandescent current which had for a moment surrounded them. The trees thus preserved...formed of solidified lava. The interior surface of this sheath had moulded itself on the surface of the |
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| in the dolerites (tholeiites) of Dalmahoy and Kaimes ttills, Edinburgh. By ROI~ERTCA.~rnrr~,, M.A., D...JnMrs W. Lv~N, B.Sc. Department of Geology, University of Edinburgh. [Read J.une 16, 1925.] THE name...Craig nan St'~rdean ( = S g h r r Mbr) in the island of lhnn. Sixty )ears later Professor tIeddle 2 visited...time chemical analyses. He also noted an occurrence of the mineral in Canna. I n 1908 A. IIarker 3 showed...chlorophaeite belongs to the nmgearites. Records of chlorophaeite arc not always t~rustworthy since the |
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| 458 J. S. Turner— A Review of Dinantian and Namurian Vulcanicity in North-Western and Central Europe...-*- discussed the correlation of the Namurian and Dinantian strata of Western Europe (17) x and reviewed...the igneous activity of the periods under consideration and it is the purpose of the present communication...general stratigraphic correlation of the successions and a discussion of earth-movements the two papers...in the works of Evans and Stubblefield (7) and von Bubnoff (41). The Variscan orogenies of Dinantian and |
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| characteristic of mechanical metamorphism show more decidedly. The clear granular patches of quartz, etc..., have the well-known form of lenticular streaks, and smaller patches of similar character occur like...eyes' imbedded in inconstant bands composed largely of colourless mica, the micaceous Kims showing the usunl...by a shearing movement of the mass, are seen in various stages. First a system of minute unsymmetrical...axial planes inclined at an angle of about 45° to the general schistosity of the rock. These folds become |
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| Prof. Hull—On the Structure of Trap-rocks. 153 LOGICAL MAGAZINE, we have reproduced the aboye diagram...Ray Lankester's excellent monograph on " The Fishes of the Old Red Sandstones," Pal. Soc. Mon.,vol. xxi...Eichwald, who supports the old notion of Kner, that Scaphaspis is the bone of a Cephalopod. Pteraspis Kneri occurs...occurs in the uppermost Silurian beds of Galizia, associated with Leperditia, Beyrichia, Tentaculites...stratum of the Old Red Sandstone, and contain, besides Pt. Kneri, remains of Pterygotus and pieces of ornamented |
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| subject of this paper is exposed in the new cutting of the Caledonian Railway to the S . of Barr head...R. G. Carruthers, of the Geological Survey, during the revision of the geology of this area for the forthcoming...forthcoming map of the Glasgow district. It was seen by the members of this Society in the course of an excursion...Carruthers. A description of it occurs in another paper contained in the present volume of the Transactions *...notes present an account of the petrographical characters of this dyke, and of the metamorphism super |
