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Raised Beaches

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Scope Note: Created For = NAHSTE

Found in 25 Collections and/or Records:

Notes on 'Our Older Sea Margins', 1900

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/17
Scope and Contents

Notes entitled 'Our Older Sea Margins', looking at both 'Terraces of Deposit' and 'Terraces of Erosion' with reference to various locations in Scotland (including Mull, Jura and Loch Carron).

Dates: 1900

Notes on 'Our Oldest Sea Margins', 1890s-1900s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/16
Scope and Contents

Notes entitled 'Our Oldest Sea Margins', subdivided into sections: 'The extent of submergence' and 'The nature of the operation'.

Dates: 1890s-1900s

Notes on proposed drawings, 1890s-1900s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/15
Scope and Contents

Notes on proposed drawings of Raised Beaches at various locations in Scotland, such as Mull and Loch Torridon.

Dates: 1890s-1900s

Notes on Raised Beaches, 1890s-1900s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/2
Scope and Contents

Page of notes on various locations of Raised Beaches in Scotland, including Fort William, Cromarty, Inverness and Elie.

Dates: 1890s-1900s

Notes regarding Raised Beach near Dublin, 1890s-1900s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/14
Scope and Contents

Brief notes regarding a Raised Beach near Dublin.

Dates: 1890s-1900s

Papers relating to Raised Beaches, 1890s-1900s

 Series
Identifier: Coll-74/3
Scope and Contents

The Papers relating to the Raised Beaches series consist of:


  1. Correspondence, notes and illustrations concerning Raised Beaches and other related geological matters.
Dates: 1890s-1900s

Peach and Horne: Replies to Queries, 1890s-1900s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/18
Scope and Contents

Replies to queries by John Horne and Benjamin Neeve Peach (1842-1926) on Raised Beaches, with reference to locations in Scotland and Ireland, what had been mapped and by whom.

Dates: 1890s-1900s

Pencil sketch of Raised Beaches at Loch Carron, 1890s-1900s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/6
Scope and Contents

Pencil sketch of Raised Beaches at Loch Carron.

Dates: 1890s-1900s

Photograph of Gordie Stack and the Drongs, Shetland, 1890s-1900s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/1
Scope and Contents

1 sepia photograph of Gorgie Stack and the Drongs.

Dates: 1890s-1900s

Printed text on 'Post-Glacial Deposits', 1903

 Item
Identifier: Coll-74/3/19
Scope and Contents

Printed 2 page article from 'Belfast Memoirs', stamped 10 October 1903, covering peats, clays, raised beaches, and alluvium in the Belfast area primarily.

Dates: 1903