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Thanks for this! Reminds me of my A level geology field trip at Lochranza in 1986!

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Great video thanks. I am from bathgate. Not far from petershill an amazing site.

Many years ago I and and another group of kayakers used to kayak (in the summer) through the Gulf of Corryvreckan to the Garvellachs, the southern most island. Beautiful place to camp especially to watch sunset but totally unaware of their geological significance.

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Probably the most interesting You Tube video I have ever seen. I came for the Alter Stone and have learnt so much more. Shipping is the obvios method with as pointed out by an Orkney local seaweed to lubricate dragging it where necessary. My question, if I may ? is about Zircons as a dating tool more generally (or any of the other methods if applicable?). Magma is at 4 figure temperatures but the Zircon crystals lock in at mere 3 figure temperatures. Have they/can they be used to date younger subsequent localised heat events ? For example dormant hot water Geyser's, or small Meteor impact sights where the temperature exceeded 8 or 9 hundred Centigrade they lock at?

Thank you for giving your time to us, i’ve learned so much from this (from a relatively new scottish tour guide)

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Thanks a lot for sharing :)

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Wow! Thanks for that. I lived 25 years on Mull, have always been interested in geology and was fascinated but understood very little. Thanks for doing such a complete tour and explaining some of the features where I was having problems. You don't happen to fancy a free holiday in the French Pyrenees and explain what is going on here, it's even weirder than Mull🤗

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This was very useful, thank you. I bought your book and joined your FB group. I look forward to learning more about pebbles.

Can you explain more about the Graywacke sandstones and carbonates? Are they reservoir rocks for oil and gas deposits?

Fab course - have really enjoyed learning about the geology of Scotland - can’t wait to come home and see Scotland again in a new light

A big surprise seeing my name mentioned. Nick Lorimer. The picture of Emily holding one of my Agates. I have many Agates from Ardownie saved from the crusher. It was in the mid 80's I collected at Ardownie. I do have a location at Usan which may indeed be blue hole material however I was working in Asia and live in Bangkok. There is some amazing botryoidal agate found also with common opal of many colours. Fantastic to see this presentation.

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There seems to be a star very low down near the solway first around Annan area. Ive never heard of gold in that area. I would be interested to hear any research on anything that close to the solway.

Very informative. My mother was originally from Scotland. Moved to the U.S.A. after her father died in W.W. l. Her mother remarried and emigrated with her new husband here. She had some jewelry that her mother brought with her made of Scottish agate. After she passed, I gave it to my oldest sister along with the few pieces of good jewelry she had. She still has it to this day….

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Excellent summary of a unique field that we, the general public, know so little about but use its produce every day. I feel like an expert now.... hehe not quite but many thanks :-)

I wish i saw it before publishing my YT content on coal-climate-Carboniferous life. These are excellent presentations, thank you.

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I enjoyed presentation, some good info there, although I'm curious.. I have other ideas as to the origins of some stones and gems and wonder what your thoughts are on what is commonly termed mudfossils and the evidence for it, this could be what you're looking for if you step out of academia for a moment :)

The new format is terrible. If the video is watched on a phone, laptop or tablet, things a barely visible. Plus the big black border is also over the top, it occupies more space than the pictures. Please, go back to the old style with pictures and just the speaker in one corner, Scotland and many of its features are remarkable but this does them a disservice.

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I can say with 100% certainty that there is gold near Dunoon, Argyll. Although if I'm completely honest I don't think a couple of fly poop sized bits count, do they? 🤣My own investigations continue though!

Nice Sharing. Wonderful Talk.

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Could the root cap in lycophytes be a product of horizontal gene transfer from a monilophyte or spermatophyte, especially because we know of the mycorrhizal fungi forming networks between roots of different plants and the importance of hgt in the survival of groups of modern plants where most or all of their relatives lacking those genes didn’t survive?

I have a degree in Earth Sciences. I worked on Mull for a while and visited the Fossil Tree.

This is excellent, I am really excited by the prospect of following this course. I have just been reading "Walking the Bones of Britain" by Christopher Somerville which is an interesting book where the author walks from the Butt of Lewis down the length of Britain to the Thames Estuary discovering the story of the underlying geology as he goes. In the appendix at the end of the book he lists various useful resources and I found this as one of them. It is truly inspirational that there are such good people going so far out of their way to make their expertise freely available to others. I feel honoured to be able to share in it. Many thanks.

Which software did you use to draw the schematic diagrams?

Hi Angus Miller, my name is Stephen. I'm in New Hampshire, USA. I'm a Geographer, UNH, '90. I was taught New Hampshire and Maine mountains, the Whites and Longfellows are ancient volcanos, smoothed over by mile thick glaciers. I have a slide show on my channel showing high velocity glass formations on the summit of Mt. Major, Alton, NH. Microscopic photos, also have a couple thin sections showing glass under cross polarized light. This glass is not affected by any glacier, river, or weathering. It seems to be in direct conflict with the volcano/glacier theory. Just thought you'd like to know, as I've noticed some things about the Highlands that seem similar.

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Great video, I’ve always had an interest in geology in fact all off the science. I live in Australia but my grandma was Scottish and I still have her 2 paintings of very wooly cattle grazing in the highlands crags and mist…lovely. I have collected many rocks from arid regions of Oz as I love the ‘centre’ and its ancient geological history. Scotland is an eye opener as your video demonstrates very well. Thank you, I’m 73, and most likely will never make it to Scotland but your vid was a well presented and riveting expose.

Really enjoyed this. Thanks.

Excellent series. Very informative.

Fantastic resource. Really interesting and useful. Thanks.

There's a famous pink rock on the shore in Corrie, Isle of Arran. I believe its one of two, the other end being somewhere on the mainland. My aunt used to own the adjacent house and droves of geologists came every year to inspect it...

I find the trend to have the presenter on camera in the corner annoying and distracting. Have them there for the first 30 seconds only.

I don’t know, why do you pick up messages? But I recently found down in Port William in Dumfries and Galloway. I’ve collected probably 1000 smaller gates from the beaches here. However, a few weeks ago, I found a very unusual large agate about 2 kg or at least I think it’s an agate. It is a nodule, but I have no way to cut it or see inside. I’ve also found on the beach again. Fairly large melted lump of black metallic material which shows burning as it comes through the atmosphere it’s magnetic and it probably is Amita. Is this something the museum would be interested in?

100% wrong on Theory. I understand Basalt columnar jointing theory better than most on the planet! Its not intrusive basalt! Never was, it never was even at a melting point EVER! Never smelted! And there is no way in hell that columnar jointing would acure horizontally! I had issues with vertical, but when I researched the horizontal it was total B.S. theory, both horizontal and vertical are incorrect. do you understand what happens to diorite when you take it too melting point??? It turns into Obsidian because of all the silicates, So if the theory is Diorite and granite where intrusive and molten? then why did it not turn into Obsidian or Glass the first time it was molten??? Because it never was Molten! NEVER! if it did the silicates would TRANSITION! and they didnt! but they do when you take it to melting point. Theory is WRONG! www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-03842-4

gonna start a pebble facsination now, but i'm a bit of a rebel in my old years. a sign tellinng me no pebble collecting? bite me. if some industry turns up they'll do what they want... another thing. i def don't buy geologist timeline explainations. why? science has shown that radioactive particles in granite could only have come about by being 'freeze frozen' in time destroying the school of 'millions of years' for granite rock age formation judging by the half life observation of known radiation in granite. there should also be no explaination in mainstream geology why some areas have pebbles and some don't if they all follow the same rules

Loved this, so informative - thank you for your content! ❤