Lawson, J.D. and Weedon, D.S. (Eds.) 1992. Geological Excursions around Glasgow & Girvan. Geological Society of Glasgow.
This material is part of the series of excursion itineraries published by the Geological Society of Glasgow. Find out more on the Geological Society of Glasgow website.
Terrane accretion in Western Scotland
1. Building stones of Glasgow — Practical geology in the city of Glasgow
2. Fossil Grove — A Carboniferous forest in Victoria Park, Glasgow
3. Milngavie and Mugdock — Clyde Plateau Lavas, sills & dykes and Craigmaddie Sandstone
4. Baldernock and Blairskaith — Early Carboniferous sediments, fossils and palaeoenvironments
5. Campsie Glen — Clyde Plateau Lavas and adjacent Carboniferous sediments
6. Corrie Burn — Lower Carboniferous sediments and volcanics, and the Campsie Fault
7. Dumbarton Rock — Carboniferous volcanic plug
8. Ardmore Point and Auchensail — Upper Old Red Sandstone/Lower Old Red Sandstone unconformity
9. Balmaha — Highland Boundary Fault and Border Complex
10. Aberfoyle District — Highland Border Complex and Upper Dalradian sediment
11. Loch Lomondside — Polyphase deformation in Dalradian rocks
12. Sithean Sluaigh — A thermal aureole and a basic igneous plug
13. Rosneath Peninsula And Loch Long — Structures in Dalradian rocks.
15. Great Cumbrae — Old Red Sandstone and Calciferous Sandstone Measures with dyke suites
16. Upper Old Red Sandstone of the Firth of Clyde — Recognition of alluvial palaeoenvironments
17. Saltcoats — Coal Measure sediments and associated intrusive igneous rocks
18. Loanhead Quarry — Clyde Plateau Lavas and minerals
19. Boyleston Quarry — Carboniferous volcanic features and minerals
20. Trearne Quarry — Lower Carboniferous fossil faunas and their and palaeoecology
21. Hagshaw Hills — Marine to terrestrial transition in Silurian rocks
22. Lesmahagow — Silurian arthropod and fish assemblages
23: Lugar Sill and Mauchline — A picrite-teschenite sill and Permian dune and bedded sandstones
24. Heads Of Ayr — A deeply eroded Carboniferous volcanic vent
The Girvan-Ballantrae complex — Introduction
25. Pinbain Block — Extrusion of lavas of the Ballantrae Complex
26. Knocklaugh — Sole of the ophiolite
33. Quaternary — Quaternary deposits and topographical features