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INNER HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS

Theme: Precambrian glaciation, climate, and tectonics.

Day 1: Field trip near Oban.

 

Day 2: Via fishing boat to Garvellachs. Precambrian glacial geology

Day 3: Tectonics and Quaternary glacial features.

 

Discussion & Notes [ PDF ]

GREAT GLEN FAULT & OLD RED SANDSTONE

Theme: Sedimentation and tectonics.

 

Discussion & Notes [ PDF ]

CAPE WRATH & LOCH ERIBOLL

Theme: Tectonic and landscape evolution from Precambrian to Recent. Moine Thrust Zone and foreland.

Day 1: Introduction to NW Highlands

 

Day 2: Basement structures

 

Days 3-5: Project - mapping thrust belt geology

 

Discussion & Notes [ PDF ]

INNER HEBRIDEAN ISLANDS

Theme: Tectonics & sedimentation in Mesozoic rift basins

Day 1: Field trip on the Island of Raasay, looking at Torridonian through Tertiary succession

 

Days 2-3: Project - extensional block tilting and stratigraphic response (group project work at sites on Skye and Raasay)

 

Day 4: Summary & presentations: syn-rift stratigraphy models

 

Discussion & Notes