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East of Scotland Branch Website


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About the East of Scotland Branch

Glen Tilt, Perthshire
Glen Tilt, Perthshire

The East of Scotland Branch is one of 17 Branches of the Open University Geological Society and covers the current council areas of: Shetland, Orkney, eastern Highland, Moray, Aberdeenshire, Aberdeen, Angus, Dundee, Perth and Kinross, Fife, Clackmannanshire, eastern Stirling, Falkirk, West Lothian, Edinburgh, Midlothian, East Lothian, Borders.

Our branch runs a number of field trips throughout the year to a variety of locations around Scotland. For a full list of upcoming events run by our branch, please see our Events page. You can find write-ups of earlier events on our Branch Trip Resumes page.

We issue a regular Branch Newsletter containing details of forthcoming events, field trip write-ups and occasional book reviews. The current issue of the Newsletter, together with an archive of the last few years' Newsletters, may be accessed online by any OUGS member.

We also have a large library (now online - and updated!) from which any OUGS member may borrow geological maps, field guides and various books. The Branch library now holds a complete set of the Scottish Journal of Geology (a full-text index of the SJG may be downloaded here).

Please explore the branch website further using the navigation links down the left-hand side.

Remember, it's your Branch, and your input to both the Branch Website and Newsletter is warmly invited.

Forthcoming events

Please note the date and location of our next field trip:
 
Jun 24, 2012, St. Monans, Fife
 
Sediments, sedimentary basins and petroleum implications: the Lower Carboniferous of Fife
 
Leader: Professor Dorrik Stow (Institute of Petroleum Engineering, Heriot-Watt University)
 
The well-exposed sedimentary succession along the coastline near Ardross and St Monans in Fife represents part of the fill of the Midland Valley and Forth Basins during the Lower Carboniferous. There are excellent examples of ancient fluvial and deltaic sediments, indications of explosive volcanic activity and evidence for active faulting during sedimentation. The rocks examined provide important information for understanding subsurface oil reservoirs in the North Sea, and for consideration of hydrocarbon prospectivity in the Forth Basin.

For more details about this event and for contact information, and a full list of upcoming events run by our branch, please see our Events page.

 
Other geology-related events
 
Information about other events may be found here when we get notice of them.
 
For more details about these events, and a full list of other events in and around our Branch area, please see our Other Local Geological Events page.

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