Kirkcaldy district - Sheet Explanation for sheet S40E

Sheet Explanations provide a brief description and interpretation of the geology of the relevant BGS 1:50 000 scale map sheet area. More detailed geological information for the same area is available via the Sheet Descriptions.

Sheet Explanations are printed A5 booklets and are available either singly, or as a pack together with the relevant 1:50 000 scale map, where this map is available.

This Sheet Explanation provides the first general account since 1902 of the geology of the area which includes Glenrothes and the port of Kirkcaldy and extends from the North Fife Hills southwards to the hills around Burtisland and from the coast westwards to Loch Gelly. It includes most of the Lomond Hills Regional Park. This part of Fife is scenically attractive and contains many geological features of considerable interest and importance in understanding the geological development of the eastern half of the Midland Valley of Scotland. The central part is rich in industrial legacy because of coal, ironstone, limestone, sandstone and mudstone (for brick) of Carboniferous age which supported a thriving mining industry until recently.

Author Browne, M.A.E.

ISBN 085272344x

Sheet(s) Covered S040

Year Published 2000