Leading the party was James Hutton, one of the first geologists. His goal was to show his peers an "unconformity" – two juxtaposing rock layers, separated by a sharp line. If you stumbled on ...

John Van Hoesen The cliff’s sandstone was formed 65 million years after the greywracke, giving Hutton the unconformity he needed (Credit: John Van Hoesen) Hutton’s ideas started to become ...

To access the unconformity on the foreshore there is ... It is here that James Hutton along with his 2 companians, James Black and John Playfair set sail from Dunglas Burn and found themselves ...

ON the coastal path north-east out of Lochranza at the top of the Isle of Arran is a mysterious way-marker directing the walker to Hutton's Unconformity, along the route to the Fairy Dell.