Location of the "Bigger than your average splat"? You've been so lucky with the weather.😎

Looks like another fine Hebridean morning🌄. Looking east across Broad Bay to Point. A week ago we were exploring the NW Highlands Geopark around the mainland mountains silhouetted on the horizon😍 #IsleofLewis#Suiliven#Canisp#Assynt ⚒️🧪

Fabulous locality; I visited on Wednesday to see some older Lewisian not completely overprinted during the Laxfordian.

#FieldtripFriday#Torridonian#Lewisian#Geology ⚒️🧪

Attenuation of the limbs in these folds has left some of the fold hinges essentially floating. #Laxfordian#IsleofLewis#TectonicTuesday#Geology#Lewisian#Folding ⚒️🧪

🤦‍♂️ Always forget to include these for greater visibility ⚒️🧪

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#FridayFold seen in a new road cutting near Stornoway. #Archaean Lewisian gneiss is cut by mafic #OuterHebrides dyke. Both are then folded during the #Laxfordian. Cross cutting of the gneissic foliation can be seen in the core of the fold, whilst the limbs are concordant.

#FridayFold#Archaean#OuterHebrides#Laxfordian. Cross cutting of the gneissic foliation can be seen in the core of the fold, whilst the limbs are concordant.

A pair of shear zones cutting across the complicated fabric in garnetiferous metasediments belonging to the Harris Granulite Belt. I keep spotting new things on the larger outcrop photo 🤔but luckily it is only a 90 minutes drive to go back #ShearZones#Granulites#OuterHebrides

Brought back some #IgneousGin#Ardnamurchan Paleocene intrusion centre #3. Our cabin was next to the distillery and was surrounded by ring intrusions giving the appearance of a caldera.

Tight to isoclinal #FridayFold in an Archaean layered intrusion at Cnoca Breac, on the west coast of South Uist. Considered to be some of the oldest rocks in the Outer Hebrides at > 2900 Ma the compositional layering is still distinguishable despite strong Laxfordian reworking