Part of the Shear Zone Channel. `On a bright and breezy day in March, join Rob as he visits a classic site in the NW Highlands Geopark, which reveals some of the oldest rocks in the British Isles - the Achaean foundations of NW Scotland.
Hi Brian - thanks for the comment - and for the Aberdeenshire migmatites. There are great outcrops - and geological stories in Scotland - but especially in Sutherland. I've tried to recount a few others that are up on this channel... including discoveries of the Moine Thrust and its structure. I hope you enjoy these when/if you get to them.
@@robbutler2095 I will definitely get to them. I watched your recent talk on the Highland controversy as part of the Geopark festival, which was brilliant.
Your videos are superb. Really enjoy these. I did mapping in the NW highlands in the area around inchnadamph in 2009 with Richard White. Did my thesis with Cees Paschier Cheers Christian
Thanks Rob...I'm really enjoying your channel. I graduated from Sheffield U. in 1976 and you have reinvigorated my interest in structural geology. Your videos are excellent!! I'm from Northern Ireland but living in Kentucky USA for many years. I did mapping fieldwork in the Ballycastle coalfield/ Fairhead dolerite sill area in NE Couny Antrim...I could have used your help. Now you have me wanting to do a trip to NW Scotland.
Hi Mick - thanks for your note ... presumably you'll have seen some of these outcrops on trips led by Jack Soper while a Sheffield. Hope you manage to get across to the Highlands...
@@robbutler2095 Remember Jack Soper well but I never made it to Scotland...our 3rd year trip was to North Wales. The other group went to Arran, which had the reputation of being much more interesting than Wales... Other prominent Sheffield profs were Roger Neves, Ted Spinner and Charles Downie... Palynology guys I think
Thanks - I hadn't heard.... all geologists I know pronounce the village name as I do in the video,... indeed the geological designation "Scourian" too ("scow-re-an"). Which is no excuse!
