Contents
Title page and preliminaries
Contents
Stratigraphical summary
Terrane accretion in Western Scotland
Excursion planner
Geology in Glasgow museums
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.
14. Greenock To Largs — Upper Old Red Sandstone and basal Carboniferous sediments: dyke swarms of three ages
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
Ballantrae Complex
25. Pinbain Block — Extrusion of lavas of the Ballantrae Complex
26. Knocklaugh — Sole of the ophiolite
27. Bennane Head To Downan Point — Sedimentation of Ordovician cherts and conglomerates: spilitic pillow lavas
28. Dow Hill, Byne Hill And Ardmillan Braes — Serpentinite, gabbro and trondhjemite and contacts: Middle and Upper Ordovician sediments and fossils
29. Upper Stinchar Valley and adjacent areas — Contrasting shallow water and deep water facies of Ordovician cover rocks: fault control of facies
30. Girvan Foreshore — Mid-Ordovician - Early Silurian fore-arc sequences: fault-controlled deposition: faunal associations and palaeoenvironments
31. The Craighead Inlier — Ordovician and Silurian shelly faunas Reference List for Excursions 25 to 31
32. Dob's Linn — Upper Ordovician and Lower Silurian and graptolite successions: Ordovician-Silurian boundary stratotype
33. Quaternary — Quaternary deposits and topographical features
Glossary
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