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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 - this internationally important
locality is often utilised for educational purposes. © Colin MacFadyen/Scottish
Natural Heritage.
Further reading:
McAdam, A.D. & Clarkson, E.N.K. 1996. Lothian Geology
- An Excursion Guide. Scottish Academic Press, Edinburgh.
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