WLGS 10 Almondell (RIGS) [NT 0908 6918] & River Almond [NT 0859 6836] (Figure 33), (Figure 35)

WLC site description

Part of the Strathclyde Group sites

Other designations: Almondell & Calder Country Park; LWS (River Almond); WS (Almondell Country Park); AGLV; AWI (Almondell Plantations, Strathbrock & Kirkhill Woods); SNWI

Almondell and Calderwood Country Park is a 90-hectare Country Park in Mid Calder, offering woodland and riverside walks, picnic areas and barbecue facilities. The Park's Visitor Centre has leaflets on the Oakbank oil-shale bing and on the rocks found within the park. In the past they have had geological displays. The West Lothian Ranger Service based at the park arranges talks, school visits and summer events. A good example of a Stigmaria tree root fossil in the Calders Member (West Lothian Oil-shale Formation) can be seen in the bank of the river at [NT 08 87]

A good example of an overfold occurs in the Broxburn Shale (West Lothian Oil-shale Formation) on the west bank of the Linhouse Water in Calder Wood [NT 0790 6710] (Figure 35). This locality is about 50 m downstream (north) of WLGS 45.

(Figure 33) Stigmaria tree root fossil in Calders Member, West Lothian Oil Shale Formation, Almondell [NT 0887 6885] (WLGS 10).

(Figure 34) View of steeply dipping Burdiehouse Limestone [NT 0860 6840] (WLGS 10). Calders Member, West Lothian Oil Shale Formation, Almondell.

(Figure 35) Overfold in Broxburn Shale [NT 0790 6710], Hopetoun Member, West Lothian Oil Shale Formation, Calderwood (WLGS 10).

(Figure 33). At the River Almond site the Burdiehouse Limestone (Hopetoun Member, West Lothian Oil-shale Formation) can be seen in the bed of the river (Figure 34). For the Calder Wood RIGS see WLGS 51 (section 3.4.10.10).