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

Arthropleura tracks near St Andrews, a cast of them can be seen in MUSA, the Scores, St Andrews

A guide to the stones used to build St Andrews.

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

Channel cut into Carboniferous sandstones at Roome Bay, Crail

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

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

Kincaple East raised beaches

Kincraig Point raised beach platforms

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

Kingsbarns has a variety of different fossils including 330 million year old millipede tracks. There are also fossilised shells and the imprints of ancient roots of trees called Lepidodendron which grew in Fife during the Carboniferous era.

The Memorial Fountain was built in 1897 and is dedicated to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. It is built of both grey and red granite.

Raised beach platforms at Kingcraig, nr. Elie, Fife

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 the way the magma cooled. The rock just to the north of the Rock and Spindle is believed to be a…

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 find some if you get down on your hands and knees sift through the sand.

Sampling the platform sections at Kingcraig point for OSL dating

Geological field guide to St Andrews.

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

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.

Tollbooth Tower, Crail

The Tolbooth built in 1598 and tower, rebuilt in 1776 contain well cut blocks of both local sandstone (buff-coloured) and material from Locharbriggs Quarry, Dumfries (dark red sandstone)

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