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Geological Mapping

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Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 67 Collections and/or Records:

Geological Survey of Scotland: Sheet 32, 1863

 Item
Identifier: Coll-99/11/4/4
Scope and Contents

Colour-coded geological map of part of Berwickshire, from a survey of or prior to 1863 by Sir Archibald Geikie and Henry Hyatt Howell as part of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Dates: 1863
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps / Geological Survey Maps of Scotland (2)

Geological Survey of Scotland: Sheet 41, 1889

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/4/6
Scope and Contents

Colour-coded geological map of part of south-east Fife and north East Lothian, from a survey of or prior to 1861 by Henry Hyatt Howell as part of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Dates: 1889
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps / Geological Survey Maps of Scotland (2)

Geological Survey of Scotland: Sheet 48, 1883

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/3/2
Scope and Contents

Colour-coded geological map of eastern Perthshire and part of Fife, from a survey of or prior to 1883 by James Geikie, Henry Hyatt Howell, Benjamin Neeve Peach and John Young as part of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Dates: 1883
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps / Geological Maps Survey of Scotland (1)

Geological Survey of Scotland: Sheet 49, 1884

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/3/3
Scope and Contents

Colour-coded geological map of south-east Angus and north-east Fife, from a survey in 1884 by James Geikie, Henry Hyatt Howell and HM Skae as part of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Dates: 1884
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps / Geological Maps Survey of Scotland (1)

Geological Survey of Scotland: Sheet 49, 1888

 Item
Identifier: Coll-99/11/4/7
Scope and Contents

Colour-coded geological map of part of south-east Angus and north-east Fife, from a survey of or prior to 1884 by James Geikie and Henry Hyatt Howell as part of the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Dates: 1888
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps / Geological Survey Maps of Scotland (2)

Hebrides or Western Isles, c1877

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/9/7
Scope and Contents

To an 1872 reprint of the map created from a survey of 1865, minor annotations have been added.

Dates: c1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps / Hydrographic Maps

Hydrographic Maps, c1877

 Sub-Series
Identifier: Coll-99/11/9
Scope and Contents

Hydrographic maps, created by the Hydrographic Department of the Admiralty, annotated and hand-coloured by James Geikie when he was involved in surveying the north and north-west of Scotland and the Western Isles..

Dates: c1877
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps

Index to the Colours and Signs employed in the maps and sections of the Geological Survey of Great Britain, 1867

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Identifier: Coll-99/11/12
Scope and Contents

Chart detailing the colours, patterns etc. used by the Geological Survey of Great Britain when marking up maps.

Dates: 1867
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Professor James Geikie / Maps

Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie, 22 October 1862

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/4/1
Scope and Contents

Letter to Robert Boog-Watson from Sir Archibald Geikie. Geikie discusses Boog-Watson's geological mapping of the south end of Arran and compares it with his own mapping of the Isle of Bute, the Cumbrae Islands, Renfrewshire and Ayrshire. He discusses Scotland's old red sandstone unconformity. He extends an invitation to join him in mapping Tinto Hill as soon as his expected working visit from Lennox is over.

Dates: 22 October 1862
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Correspondence with Robert Boog-Watson

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Bartolommeo Gastaldi, 14 February 1873

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Identifier: Coll-74/11/1/7
Scope and Contents

Letter to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay from Bartolommeo Gastaldi reporting a riot at his school where a colleague's lectures were boycotted. He mentions having sent details of geological maps of the area around Jura and promises to pay what he owes to the Geological Survey. Mention is also made of a letter by Gastaldi that Sir Charles Lyell is having published in the next edition of the Geological Magazine.

Dates: 14 February 1873
Found in: University of Edinburgh Library Heritage Collections / Papers of Sir Archibald Geikie / Correspondence of Sir Archibald Geikie (A-H) / Letters to Sir Andrew Crombie Ramsay

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