Day 1: Saturday, June 29, 2002

Route:               San Francisco – London

 

Program:      Leave San Francisco late afternoon (4:30 p.m., 6/29) and arrive London late morning (10:30 a.m., 6/30) and pick up rental cars at Sixt at Heathrow airport.

 

Day 2: Sunday, June 30

Route:      London – Durham

 

Program:      Begin in Mesozoic rocks of the Midland Platform, through Permo-Triassic rocks to the Carboniferous limestones, sandstones, and coal measures of the Pennine Province around Durham.

 

Guide:               Dr. Maurice Tucker, Master of University College, University of Durham

 

Sites:      Geology tour of Durham Castle

 

Accommodation:           University College

                              Durham Castle

                              Durham DH1 3RW

                              Tel: 0191 374 3863/3873

                              Cost: £20.50 per person, includes breakfast

 

Day 3: Monday, July 1

Route:      Durham – Edinburgh

 

Program:      Traverse from the Pennine Province, across the Solway Line (Iapetus Suture), onto the Southern Uplands accretionary prism, across the Southern Uplands Fault, and into the Midland Valley of Scotland.

 

Sites:      Hadrian’s Wall (eastern sector)

                        Melrose Abbey

                        Glenkinchie Scotch Distillery

                        Royal Mile

 

Accommodation:           Edinburgh Eglinton Youth Hostel

                              18 Eglinton Crescent

                              Edinburgh EH12 5DD

                              Tel: 0131 337 1120

                              Cost: £12.50 per person

 

Day 4: Tuesday, July 2

Route:      Geology around Edinburgh

 

Program:      Silurian and overlying Devonian strata of the Southern Uplands.  Carboniferous strata of the Midland Valley.

 

Guide:      Euan Clarkson and Brian Upton, University of Edinburgh

 

Sites:      Siccar Point: angular unconformity of Devonian strata overlying Silurian. 

                        Pease Bay: Carboniferous Old Red Sandstone facies. 

                        Catcraig: Carboniferous limestones. 

                        Arthur’s Seat: Carboniferous volcanics in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh.

 

Accommodation:           Edinburgh Eglinton Youth Hostel

                              18 Eglinton Crescent

                              Edinburgh EH12 5DD

                              Tel: 0131 337 1120

                              Cost: £12.50 per person

 

Day 5: Wednesday, July 3

Route:      Edinburgh – Lochinver (Scottish Highlands)

 

Program:      Scottish Highlands.  The Great Glen Fault.  Metamorphic basement rocks.

 

Sites:      Loch Ness: Follows the line of the Great Glen Fault.

                        Great Glen Fault: Gneiss exposures.

                       

Accommodation:           Ardglas Guest House

                              Lochinver, Sutherland, Northern Highlands

                              Tel: 00 44 (0) 1571-844257

                              Fax: 0044 (0) 1571-844632

                              Email: ardglas@btinternet.com

                              http://www.ardglas.btinternet.co.uk

                              Cost: £16.00 per person

 

Day 6: Thursday, July 4

Route:      Lochinver – Knockan – Lochinver

 

Program:      Lewisian – Moine geology of the Scottish Highlands.  From deformed Moine rocks, across the Moine Thrust into the Proterozoic Torridon, Sleat, and Stoer sedimentary rocks, and into the Archaean Lewisian gneisses.

 

Guide:               Dr. John Reavy, University College Cork, Ireland

 

Sites:      Knockan Crag: Moine Thrust and associated rocks

                        Loch Assynt Road Section

                        Skiag Bridge

                        View of Lewisian and Stack of Glencoul

                        Scourie Complex

                        Laxford Shear Zone

 

Accommodation:           Ardglas Guest House

                              Lochinver, Sutherland, Northern Highlands

                              Tel: 00 44 (0) 1571-844257

                              Fax: 0044 (0) 1571-844632

                              Email: ardglas@btinternet.com

                              http://www.ardglas.btinternet.co.uk

                              Cost: £16.00 per person

 

Day 7: Friday, July 5

Route:      Lochinver (Scottish Highlands) – Dun Flodigarry (Isle of Skye)

 

Program:      Archaean gneisses of the Scottish Highlands.  Cambrian rocks of the Moine Thrust.  Torridonian sandstones.  Tertiary igneous provinces.

 

Sites:      East end of Loch Assynt (at Inchnadamph) to Loch Broom: Cambrian rocks of the Moine Thrust plates.

                        Ullapool: Torridonian sandstones and Moine Thrust.

                        Kyle of Lochalsh: Torridonian sediments.

                        Isle of Skye: Tertiary igneous provinces.

 

Accommodation:           Dun Flodigarry Hostel

                              Tel + Fax: 00 44 (0) 1470 552 212

                              Email: hostel@flodigarry.f9.co.uk

                              http://www.flodigarry.f9.co.uk/

                              Cost: £8 pounds per person

 

Day 8: Saturday, July 6

Route:               Isle of Skye: hiking in the Eastern Cullins

 

Program:      Tertiary layered gabbros, volcanic agglomerates and alkali granite.

 

Sites:      Geology around the Isle of Skye.

 

Accommodation:           Broadford Youth Hostel

                              Broadford, Isle of Skye, IV49 9AA

                              Tel: (01471) 822442

 

Day 9: Sunday, July 7

Route:      Broadford (Isle of Skye) – Girvan (Southern Uplands)

 

Program:      Folded and faulted rocks of the Southern Uplands terrane.

 

Sites:      Rhinns of Galloway: Ordovician to Silurian age turbidite sediments.

                        Corsewall Point: Coarse conglomerates overlying the lavas, chert, and black shale of the Northern Belt.

                        Portpatrick: Dark-colored sandstone turbidites.

                        West Tarbet: Central (sandstones) and Southern Belt (sand and mudstones of the Hawick Group) rocks.

                        Mull of Galloway: Lighthouse, the southernmost point in Scotland.

 

Accommodation:           Thistleneuk Guest House, George Lacey, Proprietor

                              19 Louisa Drive, Girvan

                              Tel: 01465 712137

                              Fax: 01465 712137

                              £24.00 per person, includes breakfast

 

Day 10: Monday, July 8

Route:      Girvan (Southern Uplands) – Sedbergh (Lake District)

 

Program:      Ophiolite complex.  Southern Uplands terrane.  Iapetus suture.  Lake District.

 

Guide:      Jack Soper, British Geological Society

 

Sites:      Ballantrae: Ophiolite complex.

                        Bonney's Dyke and Pinbain Beach: Contact between the Downan Point spilite, breccia, and volcaniclastic strata and serpentinized ultramafic rocks.

                        Balcreuchan Port: Permian red sandstone.

                        Solway Line: Iapetus suture.

                        Hadrian’s Wall (western sector).

                        Shap quarry: Shap granite.

                        Grayrigg: Silurian Windemere Group.

 

Accommodation:           The Bull

                              Sedbergh, North Yorkshire

                              £20 per person, including breakfast

 

Day 11: Tuesday, July 9

Route:      Geology of the Lake District

 

Program:      Hiking across Furness Fell

 

Guide:      Jack Soper, British Geological Society

 

Sites:      Furness Fell: The Borrowdale Volcanic Group (Caradoc) through the Ashgill unconformity and part of the overlying Silurian sequence of the Windermere Supergroup.

 

Accommodation:           The Bull

                              Sedbergh, North Yorkshire

                              £20 per person, including breakfast

 

Day 12: Wednesday, July 10

Route:      North Yorkshire – Bangor (North Wales)

 

Program:      Geology of the Yorkshire Dales

 

Guide:      Jack Soper, British Geological Society

                       

Sites:      Near Skirwith: Proterozoic Ingletonian rocks with Pan-African structures - Ordovician sequence composed of Skiddaw (Arenig age), Coniston limestone group (Ashgill age), and Borrowdale (Caradoc age).

 

Accommodation:           Idwal Cottage

                              Nant Ffrancon, Bathesda, Bangor,

                              Gwynedd LL57 3LZ

                              Tel: 0870 770 5874 (in UK); (+44) 1248 600225 (outside UK)

                              £8.75 per person

 

Day 13: Thursday, July 11

Route:      Bathesda (North Wales) – Lawrenny (Pembrokeshire, South Wales)

 

Program:      Precambrian basement rocks near Holyhead of the Isle of Anglesey.  Welsh Basin.  Turbidite sequences.  Graptolitic sequence.

 

Guide:      Dennis Bates and Charlie Bendall, University of Aberystwyth

 

Sites:      Rhoscolyn: meta-grewackes, pelites, and quartzites (turbidites of Moinian Complex).

                        South Stack: meta-greywackes, meta-siltstones, and pelites (turbidites of Moinian Complex).

                        Aberystwyth: Welsh Basin sediments.

                        Abereiddy Bay: Stratotype area of the Llavirn Series within the Ordovician System, graptolite sequence.

 

Accommodation:           Lawrenny Youth Hostel

                              Lawrenny, Pembrokeshire

                              SA68 OPN

                              Tel: 0870 770 5914 (in UK); (+44) 1646 651270 (outside UK)

                              £8.75 per person

 

Day 14: Friday, July 12

Route:      Lawrenny (South Wales) – Blaenavon – Okehampton

 

Program:      Variscan-altered Carboniferous sediments.  Coal mine.  Triassic to Lower Jurassic deposits in the Bristol Channel Basin.  Lower Jurassic fossils.

 

Guide:      Dennis Bates, University of Aberystwyth

 

Sites:      Broad Haven: Sandstones and Carboniferous coal measures.  Weakly deformed Variscan structures.

                        Big Pit Colliery: Guided tour by miners, Variscan-altered Carboniferous coal seam.

                        Aust Cliff: Lower Jurassic fossils of mixed terrestrial-aquatic vertebrate fauna.

 

Accommodation:                                    Okehampton Youth Hostel

                                          Klondyke Road, Okehampton

                                          EX20 1EW

                                          Tel: 0870 770 5978

                                    Cost: £11.25 per person

 

Day 15: Saturday, July 13

Route:      Geology around Bude (Northern Cornwall)

 

Program:      Devonian and Carboniferous sedimentary rocks and minor volcanics variably folded in the Variscan Orogeny.

 

Guide:      John Whalley, University of Portsmouth

 

Sites:      Hartland Quay: Crackington Formation comprised of deep water, turbiditic sandstones interbedded with finer grained silts and shales with a variety of sole markings.

                        Millook Haven

 

Accommodation:                                    Okehampton Youth Hostel

                                          Klondyke Road, Okehampton

                                          EX20 1EW

                                          Tel: 0870 770 5978

                                    Cost: £11.25 per person

 

Day 16: Sunday, July 14

Route:      Okehampton – London

 

Program:      Effects of Alpine Orogeny.  Cretaceous chalk.  Ancient stone circle.

 

Sites:      Lulworth Cove: Folded Jurassic and Cretaceous strata, chalk cliffs, marine erosion.

                        Stair Hole: Lulworth crumples, natural arches.

                        Stonehenge:

 

Accommodation:      London – Earl’s Court Youth Hostel

                        38 Bolton Gardens

                        London, SW5 0AQ

                        Tel: (44) 207-3737083

                        Fax: (44) 207-8352034

 

Day 17: Monday, July 15

Route:      London – San Francisco

 

Program:      Return cars to Sixt rental desk at Heathrow.  Return to San Francisco at 1:50 p.m. (same day)