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Hutton's
Section at Salisbury Crags
This locality at the south end of Salisbury Crags, a prominent landmark on
Arthur's Seat and the cityscape of Edinburgh, is of enormous importance on
the development of modern geology. It was here in the late eighteenth century,
that James Hutton, the father of modern geology, found evidence that Salisbury
Crags was once molten rock. The evidence drawn from this locality was instrument
in Hutton's Theory of the Earth (1788). Today the location is a place of international
geological pilgrimage.
Hutton's Section being utilised during Scottish Geology
Week 1999.
Image
provided by Scottish Natural Heritage
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