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St Andrews
Discover where you can walk to find evidence for fossil trees and worm burrows, ancient volcanoes and earthquakes.
St Monans Fossils and Folds
The contorted rocks of the foreshore at St Monans reveal a turbulent geological past.
Dura Den
This short trail explores the local geological and industrial heritage if the Den. The rocks were formed between 370 and 325 million years ago, when Scotland was near the equator. Here the 19th Century quarrymen discovered fossil fish remains. Incredibly these fish were the ancestors of the first land vertebrates....and so indirectly our ancestors too.
Baked, buckled and frozen: rock history in the Lomond Hills
A popular upland walking area and fantastic vantage point where you can see as far as the Cairngorms, Ben Lomond and the Lammermuir hills. Six stops between Craigmead and the radio mast car parks on East Lomond visit parts of the geological story of this once volcanic landscape, that has also spent time under a shark infested sea!