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In Edinburgh you can
Sat, 09/22/2007 - 07:46In Edinburgh you can actually do a "geology" tour of the building stones along the main street (Princes Street). The tour is in the "Geology of the Lothians and Edinburgh" (or similar) guide. Most of the shop fronts are igneous of some sort. The Scott Monument used to be a lovely yellow sandstone, but is now a black sandstone due to pollution (apart from the bits they replaced a few years ago which are kind of grey now).
I have to admit to looking at the great cross bedding on some sandstone blocks in a wall nearby - I don't actually stop and look, just surreptitiously as I walk past...
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why dont you wack out your
Fri, 09/28/2007 - 17:33why dont you wack out your hand-lens and clinometer?? I'm dissapointed in you. If I had it my way, I'd wear my hard hat and high-vis all the time, and mr stappy (the hammer) would ride like a samari sword high on my back.... however this might attract funny looks so I tend to stick to my normal pirate gear when out in the street.
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At Bristol Uni there was a
Fri, 10/05/2007 - 17:35At Bristol Uni there was a 'rite of passage' field trip which has probably now been abandoned as it can be described as a form of cruel and unusual punishment!
Our self-guided fieldtrip was the bulding stones of Clifton. I have memories I will neven shake of lying on the floor in the local shopping centre drawing and describing the sedimentary structures in the Borrowdale Volcanic paving slabs before moving over to sketch stylolites from some marble with shoppers trying not to trip over me. There was also the cheery encounter with a drunk one Sunday morning as I was trying to sketch the building stones outside a church.
At least the trip finished with a brief description of the stone slab making up the top of the bar in the pub across the road from the department!
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erm, now you're asking! It
Fri, 12/07/2007 - 13:36erm, now you're asking!
It involved the floor tiles in CLifton Down shopping centre. A church on the east side of Pembroke Road (at end of Alma Road). The Pennant sandstone walls around Constitution Hill, The facade of banks along Whiteladies Road and finished with a close examination of the bar in The Berkley!
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Urban geology
Submitted by Matt on Wed, 09/19/2007 - 13:18.Inspired by this thread, I thought it deserved its own.
Whether you are the only one in the cathedral trying to guess the age of the rock from the pillars based on fossil content, or the bank round the corner has some top notch phenocrysts in the walls, share your experiences and locations here.
I'm quite partial to examining the cross bedding in sandstone and gritstone blocks on walls and buildings at the moment. There are also a few lovely pegmatites to be spotted in some of the paving stones around The Shambles and old market place in York.