We were delighted to hear from two old boys who are both geologists and who met up to celebrate the Hutton 300 event. Stuart Harker (class of 1968), pictured on the left and Godfrey Fitton (class of 1965), pictured on the right of the photograph. 

The Hutton 300 event is a celebration of  the 300th birthday of the famous polymath James Hutton of Edinburgh and his achievements.  He is known as the 'father of modern geology'.  Stuart and Godfrey visited the outcrop  Siccar Point, about 40 miles SE of Edinburgh.  Hutton originally went to the outcrop by sea in 1788 and this is the most famous outcrop in the world and is known as  Hutton’s Unconformity. The Deep Time Trail is 1.3km from the carpark, along the cliff top, enabling a good view of the unconformity of the nearly flat lying Devonian Old Red sandstones and shales resting on the contorted and steeply dipping Silurian deep sea silts.  The missing time gap is about 60 million years!

 A circular explanatory display for the Deep Time Trail lies on the cliff directly overlooking the outcrop.

The image below looks down from the display onto the outcrop with a row boat at the left side. 

Both Godfrey and Stuart are members of the Edinburgh Geological Society that helped design, fund raise and complete the project on budget (no HS2 problems) and best of all it is  free entry to all public.