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At Wormit there is a wide variety of geology including lava flows, river conglomerates, intrusive rhyolite and glacial erratics.

The Tolbooth built in 1598 and tower, rebuilt in 1776 contain well cut blocks of both local sandstone (buff-coloured) and material from Locharbriggs Quarry, Dumfries (dark red sandstone)

Tollbooth Tower, Crail

St Monans has a number of fossils including corals and also a coal seam. The rocks here have been folded and tilted since they were deposited.

Carboniferous volcanic vent, Kinkell Ness has at its centre the Rock and Spindle

Geological field guide to St Andrews.

Sampling the platform sections at Kingcraig point for OSL dating

This bay doesn’t actually have rubies, it’s named after the tiny red garnets in the sand which look a bit like rubies to the untrained eye. You might find some if you get down on your hands and knees sift through the sand.

The Rock and Spindle is an ancient volcanic vent, and it has an excellent example of radial columnar jointing (it looks like spokes of a wheel) due to the way the magma cooled. The rock just to the north of the Rock and Spindle is believed to be a…

Raised beach platforms at Kingcraig, nr. Elie, Fife

The Memorial Fountain was built in 1897 and is dedicated to Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee. It is built of both grey and red granite.

Kingsbarns has a variety of different fossils including 330 million year old millipede tracks. There are also fossilised shells and the imprints of ancient roots of trees called Lepidodendron which grew in Fife during the Carboniferous era.

This area between Kinghorn and Kirkcaldy has some pillow basalts as well as fossilised corals and crinoids.

Kincraig Point raised beach platforms

Kincaple East raised beaches

Holy Trinity Church features many interesting types of stone, including a beautiful alabaster and marble pulpit.

The rock at Crail is largely Carboniferous Sandstone and Shale, but a variety of types of rock have been used to build the village.

Channel cut into Carboniferous sandstones at Roome Bay, Crail

A walking guide to the stones that St Andrews is built with.

A guide to the stones used to build St Andrews.

Arthropleura tracks near St Andrews, a cast of them can be seen in MUSA, the Scores, St Andrews

At Aberdour the country rock (carboniferous sandstone) has been intruded by younger magma. There are also good examples of faulting and cross bedding.