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Scotland Rocks Gallery
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Siccar Point, near CockburnspathA famous site where James Hutton, known as the father of modern geology, demonstrated that two sets of layered rock had been formed at different times, with a long interlude of tilting and erosion between them. The evidence here and elsewhere in Scotland supported Hutton's theory that the earth was ancient, and that processes seen in the present day had formed rock in the past. | |
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Siccar Point from above. This is the spot where James Hutton landed by boat in 1788 and helped his friends to look "so far into the abyss of time". |
A closer view of Siccar Point, with the North Sea behind. The rocks at centre right are the old, tilted Silurian greywacke layers, overlain by the Old Red Sandstone (on the right). |
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Close up of the rocks at Siccar Point, showing the two sets of layered sedimentary rocks | 
View from the east shows nearly-horizontal layers of Old Red Sandstone |
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