SCOTLAND’S EAST COAST
Segment 8

Locality 29 - Kettlestoun Quarry
NS 9848 7598 ///promotion.refrained.raven
Abandoned Carboniferous Midland Valley quartz-microgabbro sill quarry. CARE REQUIRED. Safer outcrops (front of the quarry) show sediment rafts and vesicles.

Locality 30 - Carribber Glen
NS 9686 7533 ///wacky.inner.valuables
Weathered fine-grained Carboniferous Upper Limestone Fm. ‘Orchard Beds’ representing one of nine major marine trangressions in this Formation.

Locality 31 - Falkirk Tunnel
NS 8852 7894 ///airfields.popped.condition
Carboniferous Lower Coal Measures Fm. clastics exposed in this 630m long Union Canal tunnel. Flashlights, waterproofs and care needed for those entering.

Locality 32 - South Bantaskine Park
NS 8743 7916 ///ears.distilled.interrupt
Carboniferous Lower Coal Measures Fm. fluvial sandstones and lagoonal/floodplain mudstones. Area quarried for coal then building stone.