Dura Den is a small, 3 km-long wooded gorge that is located near Cupar in northeastern Fife, Scotland. This narrow cleft follows a course between the villages of Kemback to the north and Pitscottie to the south.

Nov 16, 2018 · DURA Den is a beautiful little winding glen in the parish of Kemback in Fifeshire, through which Ceres burn flows to join the Eden at Dairsie church. The yellow sandstone forms an interesting geological feature in this district, and, from recent discoveries which have been made in it of organic fossil remains, will probably furnish matter of ...

Dura Den is very pretty and a lovely place for walking - small river on one side, rocky cliffs on the other, lots of trees. It's also historic as the site of many important fossil finds in the 19th. century. This review is the subjective opinion of a Tripadvisor member and not of Tripadvisor LLC.

This important collection of fossils was discovered in 1859 at Dura Den, near Cupar in Fife. The Dura Den site is important, because all of the fossils are complete, and have all been removed from the site.

The main objects of this excursion are to examine: (1) some of the Upper Old Red Sandstone sediments in Dura Den; (2) Lower Carboniferous sediments at about the level of the Lower Ardross Limestone (see (Table 5)); (3) the Drumcarrow Olivine–Dolerite Sill; (4) the Blebo Hole Quartz–Dolerite Sill and its contact effects upon the adjacent shales; ...

An attractive wooded gorge between Dairsie and Pitscottie in NE Fife, Dura Den occupies part of the valley of the Ceres Burn which flows northwards to join the River Eden east of Cupar.

Mar 10, 2008 · Dura Den: A Monograph of the Yellow Sandstone and Its Remarkable Fossil Remains. Book digitized by Google from the library of Oxford University and uploaded to the …

Dura Den is a small, 3 km-long wooded gorge that is located near Cupar in northeastern Fife, Scotland. This narrow cleft follows a course between the villages of Kemback to the north and Pitscottie to the south.

Dura Den, a small ravine in Kemback parish, Fife, 2½ miles E of Cupar. It is traversed by Ceres Burn on its northerly course to the Eden, and, barely 9 furlongs in length, is famous for the wealth of fossil ganoid fish enshrined in its yellow sandstone.

Dura Den: Dura Den Formation (Upper Old Red Sandstone) [NO 41619 14838] Higher beds of the Dura Den Formation form a high cliff to the east of the road and can be examined 180 to 275 m downstream before reaching a row of cottages and a …