Emeleus, C. H. and Troll, V. R. 2008. A geological excursion guide to Rum: the Palaeocene igneous rocks of the Isle of Rum, Inner Hebrides. Edinburgh: Edinburgh Geological Society in association with NMS Enterprises Limited, 2008. ISBN: 9781905267224. Copies of the geological excursion guides can be purchased on the EGS website: purchase excursion guides.

A geological excursion guide to Rum

Contents

Title page and preliminaries

Image Credits

Acknowledgements

Introduction

Summary of the geology of Rum

Pre-Paleocene geology

Paleocene

Excursions on Rum

Excursion 1: Kinloch and surroundings

Excursion 2: The Northern Marginal Zone (NMZ)

Excursion 3: Hallival and Askival

Excursion 4: The Central Intrusion

Excursion 5: The Canna Lava Formation in north-west Rum

Excursion 6: Minishal and north-west Rum

Excursdions 7, 8 and 9. The southern mountains and Dibidil

Excursion 7: Kinloch — Allt nam Bà — Beinn nan Stac

Excursion 8: Lower Glen Dibidil — Nameless and Forgotten corries — Upper Glen Dibidil — Sandy Corrie Sgurr nan Gillean

Excursion 9: Lower Glen Dibidil — southern shoulder of Sgurr nan Gillean — Papadil

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