Skip to content

Florian Neukirchen

  • Home
  • Books
  • Photos
  • English Blog
  • Deutsch

Tag: Scotland

Unconformity at Siccar Point

Probably the (historically) most important outcrop of geology is located on the coast about 40 miles east of Edinburgh. In 1788, at a time when geology did not yet exist as an independent science and hardly anyone doubted the common teaching that the earth — according to the creation story in the Bible — was … Continue reading “Unconformity at Siccar Point”

Posted on 24. August 201830. March 2022

Hike in the Cairngorms

The Scottish mountain range of the Cairngorms reminded one Sámi so much of his homeland that in the 1940s he released reindeer from Lapland, which we actually encountered. Here are some of the highest mountains in Britain, mostly rounded knolls and relatively flat plateaus, with a harsh climate and sparse vegetation. On some mountains there … Continue reading “Hike in the Cairngorms”

Posted on 22. August 201830. March 2022

Glen Coe

Hike to the Hidden Valley in the former Caldera (Scotland)

Posted on 21. August 20189. April 2022

At Fingal’s Cave on Staffa

Boat trip to fascinating basalt columns, seals and puffins (Scotland, Inner Hebrides)

Posted on 20. August 201831. March 2022

Eilean Donan Castle

This castle is an icon of Scotland

Posted on 29. September 201430. March 2022

Isle of Skye

Hikes to Cuilin Mountains and Old Man of Storr

Posted on 10. September 201430. March 2022

Ben Nevis and neighbouring Munros

Hiking in the mountains of Scotland

Posted on 10. September 20149. April 2022

My Books

Die Welt der Rohstoffe
Florian Neukirchen
Gunnar Ries

The World of Mineral Deposits
A Beginner’s Guide to Economic Geology
Bewegte Bergwelt
I work on a translation of my book on the origin of mountains.
All books by Florian Neukirchen

Recent Posts

  • The Age of Oceanic Lithosphere
  • PyGMT: Different colormaps for land and water
  • Trekking map with PyGMT and Python
  • Import GoogleEarth placemarks KML into Geopandas
  • Open GPS tracks (GPX files) with Geopandas

Translation

  • Deutsch
  • Home
  • Books
  • Photos
  • English Blog
  • Deutsch
© Florian Neukirchen Impressum und Datenschutz / Newsfeed / Archiv