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Some geology resources

Walks Leaflets

For a glossary of the terms highlighted in bold in the walks leaflets, please click here.

Berwick Beach – Building stones, faults and earthquakes, sedimentary rock cyclothem, fossils, pebbles.
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Berwick Monocline – Berwick Monocline, faulting, Variscan plate collision.
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Burnmouth – Greywackes, flute marks, tetrapods, sedimentary rocks, trace fossils.
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Cheswick Black Rocks – Trace fossils, limestone formation, Law of Superposition, formation of sedimentary rocks, concretions and nodules, quarrying . Please click here to download.

Coldingham Sands – Volcanic pipe, Coldingham Beds, geology maps, pebbles, Caledonian plate collision, Linkim Beds . Please click here to download.

Eyemouth East – Greywackes, turbidity flows, flute marks.
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Eyemouth West – Volcanic pipe, glacial meltwater deposits.
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Murphy’s Beach – Quarrying, faults and earthquakes, trace fossils, features of sandstone beds
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Pease Bay – Old Red Sandstone, calcretes, formation of sandstones.
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Saltpan Rocks – Folding and faulting, limestone formation, crinoid fossils, formation of coal seams, sea level fluctuations, Variscan plate collision. Please click here to download.

Spittal – Sandstones, acid mine water, local coal mining and quarrying, fossils, Carboniferous forests, sedimentary rock cyclothem. Please click here to download.

The Edinburgh Geological Society have produced two excellent guides.

For Siccar Point please click here to download

For St Abb's please click here to download