Sidlaw Hills (Scotland)
Subject
Subject Source: Local sources
Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:
Lecture on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', 1886
Item
Identifier: Coll-74/7/2
Scope and Contents
Notes for 4 lectures on the 'Volcanic History of Britain', given to the Royal Institution in 1886. Sir Archibald Geikie looked at the emergence of types of geological formations against a geological timeframe and how they have been affected by various processes, especially the action of volcanoes and materials produced by them, within the natural world. He used examples from numerous locations from different parts of the British Isles.
Dates:
1886
Notebook No.85, 21 October 1840-8 December 1840
Item — Box Lyell-temp-box 4: Series Coll-203/A1
Identifier: Coll-203/A1/85
Scope and Contents
This marbled paper and red leather notebook includes Charles Lyell's geological notes on Kinnordy and surrounding area, as well as other areas of Scotland, illustrated with a watercolor cross section on page 61. There are also 'to do' lists, notes on correspondence sent, meeting agendas and lists of persons to whom papers were sent, and notes on conversations with Agassiz. He makes more observations on glacial moraines, and lists of Faluns fossils. Notes are in pencil and ink and complete index...
Dates:
21 October 1840-8 December 1840
Section of Part of Forfarshire from N.N.S. From Glen Moy Through the Bakie Loch to Dundee, c1822-1824
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/4
Scope and Contents
Geological cross-section in watercolour and ink showing Sidlaw Hills, Strathmore and the Grampians in Forfarshire. Scale: half an inch to a mile. c1822-1824
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Dates:
c1822-1824
Strathmore, c1822-1824
Item
Identifier: Coll-203/3/11
Scope and Contents
Annotated geological cross section of Strathmore, Forfarshire, in coloured pencil and ink c1822-1824.
Dates:
c1822-1824
The Geology of Strathmore, c1822-1824
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Identifier: Coll-203/3/12
Scope and Contents
Ink and watercolour cross section of the geology of Strathmore from the Sidlaw hills to the Grampians, c1822-1824 [Forfarshire].
Dates:
c1822-1824