I have returned unscathed from the Helmsdale field course, so here are some pictures from the second part of the trip. Day 4: Siltstones and soft-sediment deformation at Kintradwell. Sketch that rock, quick, before the tide comes in! Day 5: Syn-rift silts with occasional rapidly-deposited sands, at the railway bridge near Lothbeg. The river wasContinue reading Helmsdale: Part II

As this is the week before the semester starts it is field trip week for many Edinburgh students. I’m on the Helmsdale geology field trip with the new 3rd-year of the geophysics degree. Not, I hasten to add, because I know much geology. I’m really here to ensure that we don’t have a single pointContinue reading Helmsdale: a post from the far North