Twitter Updates for the 7th of April. (RJ – Robert Jamieson (me), HS – Hazel Scott). A day of Dalradian rocks, followed by Hutton’s Unconformity (well, one of them anyway).
8:23 AM Apr 7th : Early morning in Arran. Weather is truly horrendous. Rain sloshing down, time for porridge. – RJ
8:34 AM Apr 7th : Just waking up and I’m sure there will be some sore heads today. weather is pretty awful but should be another fun filled geoliday. – HS
10:07 AM Apr 7th : Fiona has reversed into a ditch. – RJ
I think there were more photos of this event taken than of any rock outcrops.
Whoops...
11:25 AM Apr 7th : Mapping Dalradian psammite along the river. – RJ
North Glen Sannox – a quick stop, we came back here later in the week to look at the Highland Border Complex nearby.
Starting to get very wet out here...
1:59 PM Apr 7th : Coming down from looking at paleogene granite, standing on some dalradian meta-sediments. – RJ
We walked up from Catacol, heading inland over Dalradian Rocks to the Northern Granite intrusion in the centre of the island.
Note the Quaternary glacial landforms...
Next we headed along to Lochranza.
3:32 PM Apr 7th : Mapping another beach, still looking at Dalradian psammites and pelites. – RJ
Lochranza in the Background
4:51 PM Apr 7th : We’re at Hutton’s Unconformity. It’s not quite as impressive as the one at Siccar point. – RJ
A brilliant geological site of historic import; but I come from the Borders originally and can occasionally be proud of that fact.
6:29 PM Apr 7th : The weather here is AWFUL. – RJ
Awful weather in Brodick
9:50 PM Apr 7th : Finished working for this evening; produced a geological map of the beach east of Lochranza. – RJ
Tags: Arran, Arran09, Devonian, Geology, Hutton, Proterozoic