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
The point seen from the west
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).
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
Siccar Point
…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 regarded as conclusive proof of his uniformitarian theory of geological development. Siccar Point was the site of a…
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 3.74187
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 55.4721, W 2.5545