SCOTLAND’S EAST COAST
Segment 6
Locality 21 - Cramond Island
NT 1963 7859 ///pencil.stones.salsa
Carboniferous Cramond microgabbro sill. Excellent exposure of west-dipping sill and views of the Firth of Forth. Watch out for the tides. Don’t get stranded.
Locality 22 - River Almond
NT 1864 7648 ///level.pipe.washed
Carboniferous Gullane Fm. paralic clastics. Channels, depositional features, dipping sediments, small-scale faults and some sill-like intrusions.
Locality 23 - Eagle Rock/Hunter's Craig
NT 2004 7747 ///scary.themes.moving
Carboniferous Gullane Fm. fluvio-deltaic sandstones. Cross-cutting planar/cross-bedding, soft-sediment deformation and a Roman eagle.
Locality 24 - Long Rib
NT 1411 7845 ///badminton.gradually.widest
Carboniferous Calders Mbr. dolomitic carbonates and oil shales that were extracted and processed for oil in the mid-late 19th and early 20th century.