Low-tide location drawing at the "around the corner" bit of that favourite pebble beach

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Here’s some wee 330 million year old crinoid ossicles that wonderfully illustrate their five-fold radial symmetry. Nature is awesome 🖤 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

The next open day at Fossil Grove in Victoria Park, Glasgow, is tomorrow (Sunday the 16th July) from 12-4pm! Head along to see this awesome 330 million year old fossilised forest and learn about life in equatorial Scotland during the carboniferous period 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

Spectacular exposure of folded quartzite beds of the Loch Treig Schist and Quartzite Formation on the NE face of Stob Coire Easain #geology #scottishgeology

A goth in her happy place 🖤 Awesome to back at Fossil Grove - a truly spectacular example of an in-situ 330 million year old fossilised forest, right in the heart of Glasgow 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

Awesome liesegang banding and iron staining in the carboniferous sandstones at Pathhead Sands, Kirkcaldy 🖤 #ScottishGeology

A wild agate appeared! #ScottishGeology

Geological pilgrimage to Hutton’s Unconformity on Arran 🖤 the basement precambrian dalradian schists are unconformably overlain by early carboniferous sediments - a gap in the rock record of almost 200 million years! #ScottishGeology

Honeycomb weathering in the permian new red sandstones at Corrie 😍 #ScottishGeology

Absolutely stunning Pathhead Formation sediments. Like a 330 million year old book - each layer revealing stories of fluctuating sea levels, dynamic delta systems and changing coastlines in carboniferous Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🖤 #ScottishGeology

Lovely crinoidal mess 🖤 #ScottishGeology

Dreamy moss agate 💚 I love that because agates were super popular during the 19th century, and relatively abundant on some beaches here, people would call them scotch pebbles 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #ScottishGeology

Current pocket rock 🖤 #ScottishGeology #Limestone

I love the way these cirri are draped over the stem like wee beads. Crinoid appreciation 🖤 #ScottishGeology #ScottishFossils

Amazing range of colours of lichen on gravel at the gravel quarry near us. Sometimes the adage "small is beautiful" applies. Being Hobbit sized I always apply it! 😉

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I love that every wee piece of this limestone is unique 🖤 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

Fenestella bryozoans 🖤 these colonial invertebrates were important reef forming organisms in the shallow tropical seas that covered parts of Scotland 330 million years ago. They get their name from their intricate meshwork - Fenestella is derived from the Latin fenestra meaning little window. #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology

This wee Neuropteris was buried deep underground for ~310 million years until the rise of the coal industry in Scotland. To reach the coal seams vast volumes of rock were extracted & the waste thrown into bing (spoil heaps) which often caught fire - occasionally baking fossils 🔥 #ScottishFossils #ScottishGeology #FossilFriday

Want to know more about fossil jobbies? Aye, of course you do! I’ll be at Geo Natter in Kelvin Hall tomorrow (1st Feb) 1:30-3pm & this week’s theme is coprolites 💩 everyone welcome to head along & chat to fellow rock geeks! Pictured is a cute 330 million year old shark jobby 😍 #ScottishGeology

Cobble appreciation - messy brecciated anthracite and calcite 🖤 #ScottishGeology