In just a day and a half in the Borders we managed to visit fascinating geology ranging from the Ordovician through to the Quaternary. However, as you can see from these write ups it is painfully clear that we lacked the time to do it in any detail. We could have spent an entire day at Burnmouth wandering down the coast; another climbing the Eildons (like I said, I want a bit of Riebeckite-Felsite); one down the coast at Scremerston just south of Berwick collecting crinoid stems and another at Dob’s Linn and Grey Mare’s Tail looking at Quaternary landscapes and the North Trench. There are many more places we could have visited – we could have travelled up the coast to the volcanic hills and islands of North Berwick; down to Jedburgh to complete the Hutton’s Unconformity trifecta or to see some of the volcanic vents along the coast (eg at Coldingham).
We have loads of beautiful geology in our backyards here in Scotland, and there’s so much of it I still want to see. We’ll hopefully make another, longer, trip down at some point in the future. Stay tuned.
Homeward Bound