Angus Miller

@geowalks.scot

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Walks & holidays exploring Scotland's geology, and its influence on landscape & people. Edinburgh Uni Teaching Fellow, founding Trustee Scottish Geology Trust.

Snip of Ordnance Survey map of Holyrood Park in Edinburgh, showing that Arthur's Seat and Salisbury Crags are separate hills.
View of the granite mountains of North Arran, including the notched ridge of Ceum na Caillich, the Witch's Step.
Angus Miller at the Siccar Point Deep Time Trail, sitting in the stone viewpoint structure. A carved sandstone block has a quotation from John Playfair 1788 "the mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time".
Layered cake with squashed and folded chocolate cake and slab of layered light coloured cake on top.
The new viewpoint structure at Siccar Point, constructed from local stone and containing a carved sandstone block with a quote from John Playfair "The mind seemed to grow giddy by looking so far into the abyss of time".
Front pillars of the RSA with colourful banners advertising the 200th Annual Exhibition.
Geology panels outside Dynamic Earth in Edinburgh with Salisbury Crags behind.
Stone wall under construction including a carved quote stone that reads "in nature there is wisdom, system and consistency. James Hutton 1788"
Complete set of the Hutton Lost Drawings rolled and packaged in a purple cardboard storage box.
Actors playing Isabella Hutton (Jane Westhead) and James Hutton (Billy Quain) in Holyrood Park, Edinburgh with Arthur's Seat in the background.
Actors playing Isabella and James Hutton in Holyrood Park, in the "Hutton in Edinburgh" Fringe show.
Meta AI does a very poor job at explaining a Coldplay kisscam meme.
Mousa Broch, Shetland. Constructed of local Old Red Sandstone.
Weather forecast for Shetland, 7 days of sunshine
Children exploring Wardie Bay, Edinburgh with rocks and buildings in the background.
Ridges and islands of Moine metamorphic rock, looking out to sea on the south coast of the Ross of Mull, Isle of Mull, Scotland.
A cliff of andesite rock with a sycamore tree growing on it, roots finding the cracks in the rock. Blackford Hill, Edinburgh
Student group exploring the unconformity surface at James Hutton's famous Siccar Point unconformity.
Volcanic vent margin: mashed up sandstone next to fluidised mudstone.
View across the Firth of Forth from near Ardross Castle, St Monans, Fife. In the foreground a plunging syncline in Carboniferous sedimentary rocks is pierced by a small basalt intrusion.
Close view of the acknowledgement to Professor 'Brain' Upton
Information board on the Fife Coastal Path in St Monans, telling the story of the volcanic vent.
Group of people huddle beneath a cliff of sedimentary rock, eating lunch. South of Kings barns, Fife
View of Salisbury Crags and Dynamic Earth in central Edinburgh. The sun is shining.
Stack of paper drawings wrapped in torn brown paper.
Driver and navigator.
Charging in a busy service station.
Bank of four rapid chargers in the sunshine.
Screenshot from the Zapmap app showing what chargers are available on the road ahead.
Charging at Todhills on the M6.
Generic winter sunrise photo
Easter Road Edinburgh in the dark.
Roxie the Geodog posing on a slab of sandstone. She had a 'rocky' start in life, an accident in a puppy farm (unwanted collie / schnauzer cross) but rescued and came to us. Best dog ever!
Walking the St Cuthbert's Way near Wooler
Rainbow behind Peanmeanach bothy, Ardish peninsula, Lochaber
Dog on layered meta-sedimentary rock with quartz, Lochaber, Scotland
Happy cars charging rapidly
Ballachulish slate quarry being enjoyed by an enthusiastic visitor and geodog.