Museum: School of Earth and Environmental Sciences (EES)

Sampling Platforms, Kingcraig

Sampling the platform sections at Kingcraig point for OSL dating

Kingcraig

Kincraig Point raised beach platforms

Kincaple East

Kincaple East raised beaches

Arthropleura Tracks

Kingsbarns

Kingsbarns has a variety of different fossils including 330 million year old millipede tracks. There are also fossilised shells and the imprints of…

Rock and Spindle

The Rock and Spindle is an ancient volcanic vent, and it has an excellent example of radial columnar jointing (it looks like spokes of a wheel) due to…

St Andrews Geological Trail

Geological field guide to St Andrews.

Building Stones of St Andrews

A guide to the stones used to build St Andrews.

Building Stones of St Andrews

A walking guide to the stones that St Andrews is built with.

Crail Geology

The rock at Crail is largely Carboniferous Sandstone and Shale, but a variety of types of rock have been used to build the village.

Aberdour

At Aberdour the country rock (carboniferous sandstone) has been intruded by younger magma. There are also good examples of faulting and cross bedding.

Holy Trinity Church

Holy Trinity Church features many interesting types of stone, including a beautiful alabaster and marble pulpit.

St Andrews Geological Trail

Carboniferous volcanic vent, Kinkell Ness has at its centre the Rock and Spindle

Wormit

At Wormit there is a wide variety of geology including lava flows, river conglomerates, intrusive rhyolite and glacial erratics.

St Monans

St Monans has a number of fossils including corals and also a coal seam. The rocks here have been folded and tilted since they were deposited.

Kinghorn

This area between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy has some pillow basalts as well as fossilised corals and crinoids.

Ruby Bay

This bay doesn’t actually have rubies, it’s named after the tiny red garnets in the sand which look a bit like rubies to the untrained eye. You might…

Photosphere of Kingcraig