Expert-Led Trips
- 21st January 2026. Hunterian Museum. Katie Strang
- 9th April 2026. Skateraw, near Torness. Fiona McGibbon: This excursion provides an opportunity to focus on sedimentary rock identification and stratigraphy. It is particularly informative by offering extensive horizontal exposures of individual beds as well as exquisite vertical sequences. These rocks are from the Carboniferous Period and are a continuation of those at Whitesands/Barn’s Ness. There is also an impressive intact lime kiln at this site. This fieldtrip will involve walking over slippery rocks in the intertidal zone at times. The meeting point is at Skateraw Harbour carpark (free), where there are also toilet facilities. Grid reference = NT736754; W3W = fuzzy.radiates.apricot
- 8th May 2026. Tyninghame Beach, Part 2. Fiona McGibbon: Wave action over the last few years has revealed interesting new exposures at Tyninghame Beach, to the east of St Baldred’s Cradle. This fieldtrip will focus on those and will look in more detail at the rocks that have been rushed at end of previous trips to this locality. Hopefully I can tempt those who have been before with a return visit, but with a slightly different route. We will see a variety of igneous and sedimentary rocks and will also spend some time coming to grips with the evidence of deformation they display. We can also observe the impressive modern sedimentary processes in evidence in the Tyne Estuary. This fieldtrip will involve walking over slippery rocks in the intertidal zone at times. The meeting point is at the Council carpark at Tyninghame Beach where there is a £3 fee for the day. There are no toilet facilities. Grid reference = NT627809; W3W = lace.slab.noun
- 6th June 2026. Bellhaven Part 2. Fiona McGibbon: We will meet at the carpark on Shore Rd, Belhaven where there is a charge of £3 for the day and there are also public toilets. For those in the group who took part in the Belhaven trip I ran in 2025, this fieldtrip will continue on from that, going further east to look in detail at the pyroclastic rocks of the large Parade Vent. This fieldtrip will involve walking over slippery rocks in the intertidal zone at times. The trip will end in the Dunbar Harbour area, meaning that participants will have to walk back to Belhaven along the coastal path (or Back Rd), or take the bus (or arrange to shuttle by car). Grid reference = NT662786; W3W = soulful.laptop.skippers
Self-Led Trips 2026
- 17th March 2026. National Museum of Scotland Collections Centre in Granton, with a focus on fossils
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