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Hutton's Unconformity
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Hutton's Unconformity is a name given to various notable geological sites in Scotland identified by the 18th-century Scottish geologist James Hutton as places where the junction between two types of r
Cover of the journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This is the issue where James Hutton published his Theory of the Earth in 1788.
Cover of the journal Transactions of the Royal Society of Edinburgh. This is the issue where James Hutton published his Theory of the Earth in 1788.
Hutton's Glen Tilt exposure at the collapsed Dail-an-eas Bridge upstream from Forest Lodge, drawn by John Clerk of Eldin in 1785; N 56.85109, W 3.7418
Hutton's Glen Tilt exposure at the collapsed Dail-an-eas Bridge upstream from Forest Lodge, drawn by John Clerk of Eldin in 1785; N 56.85109, W 3.74187
Hutton’s First Unconformity at Newton Shore on the Island of Arran; N 55.718072, -5.287987
Hutton’s First Unconformity at Newton Shore on the Island of Arran; N 55.718072, -5.287987
Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, Jedburgh. A photograph shows the current scene (2003), below John Clerk, Lord Eldin's illustration of 1787; N 55.472
Hutton Unconformity at Inchbonny, Jedburgh. A photograph shows the current scene (2003), below John Clerk, Lord Eldin's illustration of 1787; N 55.4721, W 2.5545
Siccar Point
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Siccar Point is a rocky promontory in the county of Berwickshire on the east coast of Scotland. It is famous in the history of geology for Hutton's Unconformity found in 1788, which James Hutton regar
Hutton's Unconformity
…outcrops and cliffs, both riverside and sea, and found several locations where two adjoining rock types had been laid bare, the most noted being at Siccar Point on the coast of Berwickshire. Hutton hit on a variety of ideas to explain the rock formations he saw, and, after a quarter century of work, he read his…
The point seen from the west
The point seen from the west
St. Helen's Chapel.
St. Helen's Chapel.
The eroded sandstone outcrop above conglomerate and vertical ribs of greywacke, still much as when sketched in 1788 by Hutton's companion Sir James Ha
The eroded sandstone outcrop above conglomerate and vertical ribs of greywacke, still much as when sketched in 1788 by Hutton's companion Sir James Hall.
Field sketch of Hutton's Unconformity at Siccar Point, Scotland by Sir James Hall (1788).
Field sketch of Hutton's Unconformity at Siccar Point, Scotland by Sir James Hall (1788).