Ardnamurchan

[Everything Mac]

Hi all - I don't usually post in this section but here are a few photos from my geology field trip to Ardnamurchan peninsula.

yours truly doing a bit of posing:

the view

Ben Hiant - you can really see it but two of my mates are half way up.

certainly a tough trip - there are more photos but they aren't suitable for here, unless you want to see rocks and drunken students

On the ferry crossing there was a gent driving a metallic blue ford ranger pick up. he had obviously been on a stalk as his rifle was on the passenger seat and he had a deer in the back.

Andy

 

[Toddy]

I haven't been there in ages

Sounds as though you had fun though

Thanks for sharing.

cheers,
M

 

[nickliv]

Theost westerly point on mainland UK. We used to holiday in Kilchoan every year when I was a kid. I remember rain, wind, cold, and a bloody great time. And a white sand beach that was (probably still is) amazing.

 

[Barn Owl]

Good stuff Andy,

Actually I'd find some rock photos and an idiots guide to same interesting.

Tom.

 

[QDanT]

thanks for the memory surface, last visit would be 1974 to a bike rally at Kilchoan on a Honda 500 four, way up-passed loch Lomond-Glen Coe-Ballachulish ferry-Corran ferry-Kilchoan. I remember a single hand cranked petrol pump with a press bell for service and a guy wearing a butchers apron came out of the hotel to fill the tank and the whole village including the Laird turning the Saturday night into a Ceilidh.(sp?)
cheers Danny

 

[stooboy]

certainly a tough trip - there are more photos but they aren't suitable for here, unless you want to see rocks and drunken students

You have met some of us!

The guy next doors dad is a geologist, he said that his father was always taking photos of rocks but always put something beside it for scale like a ruler, or daily object like coke can or phone, he and his sister once took a pic of a 50p on a paveing slab and forgot about it apparently he spent days trying to figure out what it was that was so intresting that he took a photo off beside the 50p

anyway looks like a good day out did you wet a line in that loch ?

 

[The Cumbrian]

Were you trying to amplify your farts in the second pic down?

Cheers, Michael.

 

[Everything Mac]

yup - we use known objects for scale too. - usually a pen, hammer ruler etc. lol.

Do you know what - I never actually thought of trying to amplify a fart!

day trip - I wish. - we were there for a week!- can't complain too much though - apart from the constant up down up down of the hills - the trip was quite good. It was my first real mapping exercise so I learnt a lot - and the weather was fantastic!
Drunken student

Tossing a caber

A small water fall exposing a layer of sandstone and sandstone.

A Dolerite plug with radial cooling joints. - what you see here is the very edge of the plug which was cooling from all directions giving a lovely radial jointing pattern.

Andy

 

[hog]

I take it that the dolerite plug has no deep down liquid chamber and is now on the extinct list.
Last time one of these blew was at Mt st Helens, (I think) .
With devastating results.

 

[Everything Mac]

I take it that the dolerite plug has no deep down liquid chamber and is now on the extinct list.
Last time one of these blew was at Mt st Helens, (I think) .
With devastating results.

lol indeed - this one is quite small. there is most likely a feeder dyke in the area some where. - or it could be a plume from a much deeper source.

there is a number of dykes in the area (I forget how many I mapped - probably close to 20) - the plume is of the same composition so will have been from the same event.

atb

Andy

 

[gsfgaz]

yup - we use known objects for scale too. - usually a pen, hammer ruler etc. lol.

Do you know what - I never actually thought of trying to amplify a fart!

day trip - I wish. - we were there for a week!- can't complain too much though - apart from the constant up down up down of the hills - the trip was quite good. It was my first real mapping exercise so I learnt a lot - and the weather was fantastic!
Drunken student

Tossing a caber

A small water fall exposing a layer of sandstone and sandstone.

A Dolerite plug with radial cooling joints. - what you see here is the very edge of the plug which was cooling from all directions giving a lovely radial jointing pattern.

Andy

Andy, i've seen it aw noo, that stella does crazy thing's ti u, but i've never ran aboot wi a sledge hammer, it's early yit //// haa haa great fotees m8

 

[Mistwalker]

Nice photos, I wouldn't mind a week there at all!

 

[Everything Mac]

Nice photos, I wouldn't mind a week there at all!

Indeedy - if you do go - keep an eye out for a wooden handles brick hammer because its mine!