Locations Page - will contain the entire list of geological sites and locations with links to them

This is in addition to the list of top twenty sites

It is expected that there will be over 100 locations in total.


Locations List:

1. 'S Airde Beinn - a volcanic plug.
2. Calgary Bay Dykes - a very prominent famous Palaeogene (Tertiary) dyke.
3. Lagganulva Ash bed - the most accessible example of volcanic ash.
4. Ulva Basalt Columns - spectacular columnar basalt.
5. Loch Ba Ring Dyke - a world famous ring dyke
6. Loch na Keal P-forms - a glacial feature, well exposed on the shore.
7. Gribun Unconformity - a huge time-gap in the geological sequence.
8. Mackinnon's Cave -  deepest sea cave in the Hebrides
9. The Wilderness - spectacular coastal scenery, very wild and remote.
10. Staffa - world famous basalt columns and Fingal's Cave.
11. The Fossil Tree, Burg - remains of a tree caught in  a lava flow.
12. Carsaig East (ammonites) - casts of ammonites visible on the shore.
13. Carsaig Arches - cave and arch in basaltic lavas.
14. Ardtun  - fossil leaf bed in between lava flows.
15. Ardalanish Bay - metamorphic rocks and unusual minerals
16. Ross of Mull Granite Contact - where the granite meets the metamorphic rocks.
17. Fionnphort: Ross of Mull Granite - Pink granite with grey intrusions in it.
18. Iona Glacial Erratics - granite boulders carried by ice.
19. Iona - Columba's Bay - famous for its green serpentine-marble pebbles.
20. Iona Marble Quarry - white marble, no longer quarried.

 

Other sites that will be written up in due course include the Gribun dessication cracks, the dykes at Ardmore Point, the composite dyke near Ishriff, the pillow lavas in Glen More, the mugearite plug at Lagganulva, the sea cave on Ulva,  etc...