Highland Granite?

[auld argonian]

Aren't the stones used in curling made from Highland Granite...the BEST stones, that is...

Best

AA

[Pour1Malt]

Aren't the stones used in curling made from Highland Granite...the BEST stones, that is...

Best

AA

nope!

the best curling stanes (including the Scottish Olympic Champion Teams Stanes)

arr frae the wee stane isle o' Aisla Craig...

http://web.ukonline.co.uk/mountains/ailsa.htm

also....

a lot o' high grade granite frae Dalbeattie (18 miles frae Ferintosh) is in the older buildings in New York...

it wuz used as ballast in the ships returnin tae usa after droppin cotton aff in Scotland & Englad...

the wee town o' Dalbeattie is almaist entirely built frae granite.... e'ery house. shop, kirk, an sae oan...

[Mike1]

And Aberdeen's nickname is...?

[KiltedCodeWarrior]

And Aberdeen's nickname is...?

The Silver City!

[macwilkin]

And Aberdeen's nickname is...?

Why, "The Granite City", of course!

Happy to meet, sorry to part...

Todd

[Kilted KT]

hmm.. I wonder how hard it would be to get some Scottish Granite for my kitchen...hmmm...

[efer]

Granites are gneiss but metamorphic rocks are cooler

To me, the metamorphic geology in Scotland is the more interesting geology.

Check out this link:
http://www.brocku.ca/earthsciences/p...gy/barrow1.htm

Here's a blurb from the 1st page of the link...


George Barrow mapped a widespread series of zones of progressive metamorphism, as observed in the Dalradian sequence exposed in Scottish Highlands, in the late 19th century.

Each zone recognized is based on the first appearance of a group of distinctive index minerals as the highest metamorphic grade, along the thermal axis, was approached. Thermal axis has abundant granitic bodies situated along its length.
Index mineral is one which is characteristic of that zone - any mineral within the zone may be the index mineral.

So what this means....as one stand on the rocks and moves from places to place and notices different minerals present. The presence and absence of these index minerals infer temperatures and pressures that the package of rocks were at within the crust during an orogoney (mountain building). The really thing about the Scottiah Highlands is one can walk through a progressive series (different temperatures and pressures) via the visible index minerals and see how the same lithology (package of rock) changed with T & P.

I love metamorphic geology but groundwater pays the bills

Cheers,