Drummond Hill, sketches in field notebook, Henry Mowbray Cadell, 1883.

BGS image ID: P680476

Drummond Hill, section No 1. Section on road along south side of Drummond Hill 1 and three-quarter miles west from Hennore 12/10/1883. H.M. Cadell sketch.

BGS image ID: P680477

Drummond Hill Section no 8 profile (on left) Section across hill No.9 on east side of the fault which shifts the felsite (Right). . H.M. Cadell sketch.

BGS image ID: P680478

Drummond Hill, quartz porphyry columnar jointing. H.M. Cadell sketch.

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Drummond Hill Section no 10. Cliff at SW corner of wood in line of fence passing the Praetorium near Fortingal. H.M. Cadell sketch.

Henry Mowbray Cadell famous mountain building experiments

Bob McIntosh

Sketches by Ben Peach, Geological Survey of Scotland Geologist

BGS image ID: P612884

Loch Glencoul, North-west Highlands, a watercolour sketch by Ben Peach

Before field photography was practical geologists used to create sketches like this in their notebooks and field slips.

BGS image ID: P612879

Sketch in field notebook, by Ben Peach. Peach would often sketch a wide range of non-geological subjects - perhaps he was sitting in a bothy somewhere waiting for the summer rain to stop, doodling faces, animals, cartoons whatever came to his mind!

Bob McIntosh

On geological section drawing - a page from a field notebook, Henry Mowbray Cadell

BGS image ID: P680480

On geological section drawing - a page from a field notebook by Henry Mowbray Cadell, (1860-1934).

Cadell was a geologist with the Geological Survey of Great Britain.

Bob McIntosh