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Burlington House, London

July 30, Saturday
10 a.m.

Euston Station, London.

Caledonian Sleeper train departs 7 p.m. Confirm time in London.

Arrive Fort William, Scotland.

Travel by van to Oban.

Modern glacial features and structure, Isle of Kerrera

Hotel Oban

July 31, Sunday

Precambrian glacial deposits of the Garvellachs

Climate history

Travel via fishing boat

Hotel Oban

August 1, Monday

Glenfinnan

Parallel Roads of Glen Roy

Hotel Inverness

August 2, Tuesday

Cromarty

Old Red Sandstone—Hugh Miller's Cottage

Great Glen Fault

Hotel Ullapool

August 3, Wednesday

Assynt

Foreland Precambrian rocks

Cambro-Ordovician sequence

Moine Thrust Zone

Inchnadamph

Hotel Ullapool

August 4, Thursday

Transect of Laxford Front

Scourie and Rhiconich

Hotel Durness or Lock Inver

August 5, Friday

Moine Thrust Zone Loch Eriboll.

Introduction to field exercise

Project - structure of fold-thrust belt.

Hotel Durness or Loch Inver

August 6, Saturday

Moine Thrust Zone Loch Eriboll.

Introduction to field exercise

Project - structure of fold-thrust belt.

Hotel Durness or Loch Inver

August 7, Sunday

Moine Thrust Zone Loch Eriboll.

Introduction to field exercise

Project - structure of fold-thrust belt.

Hotel Durness or Loch Inver

August 8, Monday

Tectonics & Sedimentation in Mesozoic Rift Basins. Skye.

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

 

Accommodations Skye

August 9, Tuesday

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

Accommodations Skye

August 10, Wednesday

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

Accommodations Skye

August 11, Thursday

Summary & presentations: syn-rift stratigraphy models

Accommodations Skye

August 12, Friday

Transet: Skye to Fort William

Return to London by Caledonian Sleeper. Confirm time.

8 p.m.

August 13, Saturday

Arrive London

9 a.m.

August 14, Sunday

 

Geological Commentary

   

JSG Scotland 2005 is funded by the Geology Foundation of the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson School of Geosciences.