Streaky eclogite from Cnoc More, Glenelg, containing garnets and feldspathic veins.
Photo by Dave Longstaff

A welcome pause on the Glenelg ridge.
Photo by Bill Peppe

Inverness Castle of Tarradale ORS sandstone and Flora Macdonald statue on a Peterhead and Kinsteary granite plinth.
Photograph Dave Longstaff.

1,200Ma Stac Fad Member containing meteorite ejecta located along the Assynt coast.
Photograph Dave Longstaff

Ledmore marble quarry.
Photograph Dave Longstaff

Society members resting at the singing sands.
Dave Longstaff

Multiple concretions in the Valtos sandstone.
Dave Longstaff

Stromatolitic limestone (Stoer Group) resting unconformably on Lewisian gneiss. Above, the rubbly layer is the Torridonian group, yet another unconformity.
Dave Longstaff

A very thin layer of the Torridonian group sitting unconformably onto Lewisian gneiss, a time gap of roughly 2 billion years.

Some members came better prepared for air-born assaults than others...
Dave Longstaff

Discussion in borrow pit close to the lip of the gorge on whether the deposit was sub-glacial or outwash
Dave Longstaff

Formed by channeling of late-glacial meltwater through Grampian and Appin Group stratigraphy, and nonmetamorphosed Devonian sedimentary rocks, their junction locating the Caledonian unconformity
Andy Leggatt

Group with the 260m, 325m & 350m shorelines visible beyond.
Alan Thompson

ORS unconformity: Rubha na h Earba
Dave Longstaff

Lochaline Silica Mine
Dave Longstaff

A Fulgurite at Corrie.
Dave Longstaff

Members straddle the ORS/Carboniferous unconformity at Corrie.
Dave Longstaff

Resting after the climb up a section of a Moine thrust duplex, Conival in the background.
Dave Longstaff

Ice-polished pipe rock, grooved by ice-sheet moving left to right (uphill).
Andy Leggatt

Detail of the Laterite red bole,Loch Langaig.
Stephen Young

Group in good heart at Culnaknock; leader Jim Ritchie RHS, sill above shales of the Lealt Shale Formation behind.
Stephen Young

Great estuarine sandstones, Valtos.
Dave Longstaff

Jim Blair and HGS group.
© Rhona Fraser

Self-led Excursion
Dave Longstaff

Self-led Excursion
Dave Longstaff

Self-led Excursion
Dave Longstaff

Self-led Excursion
Dave Longstaff

Tayvallichs Weekend.
Dr R Anderton, our leader on a volcaniclastic exposure.
Peter Christie

Tayvallichs Weekend
An exercise in folding. Note the barrel-like fold on which Dr Anderton is standing.
Andy Leggatt

Tayvallichs Weekend.

Peter Christie

Tayvallich Weekend.
Volcanic clasts in Dalradian meta-sediment.
Peter Christie

Duntelchaig Area
Mega-garnets in Moine Schist.
Peter Christie

Duntelchaig unconformity between Moine metasediments and Devonian breccia-conglomerate.
Peter Christie

M.O.R.S. brecciated sea stack, Sandend LSF
Dave Longstaff

Cave weathered out of breccia, sea stack
Dave Longstaff

Boyne LSF, Old Hythe Bay
Dave Longstaff

Group photo of attendees, Elgol.
Dave Longstaff

Sunshine on the Jurassic marine sediments at Elgol, with gabbros of the Black Cullins beyond.
Dave Longstaff

Honeycomb weathering of the Elgol Sandstone Formation.
Andy Leggatt

Sauropod trackway, Duntulm. Footprints are positive casts resulting from the infilling of the original impressions with more durable, less easily eroded sediment.
Andy Leggatt

Bun Loyne. The sunny day of our September weekend.
© Peter Christie

Bun Loyne. Garnets up to 50mm in schist.
© Peter Christie

Loch Quoich on the road to Kinloch Hourn. Refolded folds.
© Andrew C.Leggatt

After the rain, lunch on the flat slabs...: © Fiona McGibbon

Sunny Saturday with the view to the west from the Beoil Schist/Quartzite: © Andrew C. Leggatt

Sheath fold picked out by weathering of the schist: © Julian Overnell

The Strath Fionan meta-limestone quarry, fondly remembered by many Kindrogan OU students over the years: © Andrew C. Leggatt

Looking up Strath Fionan over the loch from the limestone karst: © Andrew C. Leggatt

The search for way-up structures, South Skye: © Alan Thompson

Palaeogene dykes, Point of Sleat, South Skye: © Andrew C. Leggatt

The last day above Attadale.
© Edward Lynch

Avernish shear zone.
© Rhona Fraser

Our leader, John Mendum (BGS Edinburgh) discussing the lithological variations which help differentiate the Moine from the Lewsianoid gneisses at outcrop.
Photograph © Andrew C. Leggatt

Group photograph: © Aidan Karley

Lewisian exposure
© Dave Longstaff

Arthurs seat. Stuart Munro demonstrating lithospheric extension to Sinclair using the 'Mars Bar' model.
© Dave Longstaff

Lewisian: © Dave Longstaff