H.M.Cadell's famous mountain building experiments

 BGS image ID  P612832

H.M.Cadell's famous mountain building experiments. Photo of his experimental ‘squeeze box’ at The Grange, Bo’ness 25th January 1887. Cadell was a mining consultant and industrialist and for some time was a member of staff of the Geological Survey in Scotland.

Using wet sand and plaster of Paris he tried to recreate thrust geometries seen in the North-west Highlands.

Bob McIntosh