The Geology of the Neighbourhood of Edinburgh |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ORDOVICIAN AND SILURIAN | 10 |
LOWER OLD RED SANDSTONE | 23 |
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argillaceous Arthur's Seat Arthur's Seat Volcanic basalt Bavelaw beds blaes Bore boreholes boulder clay Broxburn Carboniferous Carlops Cementstone Group channels Coal Measures Cobbinshaw conglomerate Corston Hill Cousland Craiglockhart Dalmahoy Dalmeny deposits Dunsapie east Edin Edinburgh exposed Fault fauna ft O.D. ft thick Geol Geology glacial Granton grey grit Gutterford Burn horizon Inlier intrusions Limestone Limestone Coal Group Lower Limestone Group Lower Oil-Shale Group Lower Old Red Lyne Water MACGREGOR marine bands marls meltwater Midlothian Midlothian Coalfield mile mudstone North Esk Oil-Shale Old Red Sandstone olivine-basalt ostracods outcrop Passage Group pebbles Pentland Hills Pumpherston Quarry Queensferry Raised Beach Reservoir Salisbury Craigs sand and gravel sandy Scotland seatclay sediments Shale Sheet 32 sill siltstone Silurian Southern Upland strata Surv teschenite thin Trans Tulloch and Walton Upper Oil-Shale Group Upper Old Red Valley vent Wardie Shales Water of Leith West Calder West Lothian