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This is now a fine-looking article, thanks to the creativity of the recent editors. Well done. Wilson44691 ( talk) 21:47, 2 January 2009 (UTC) reply

I've made a start on trying to provide greater detail about the major ORS depositional basins and the suites of rocks that occur within them. I invite other editors to discuss how the article as a whole may better be structured. Geopersona ( talk) 06:30, 26 February 2010 (UTC) reply

This is the first WIKI edit I have attempted, so... You give an example of ORS as 'Sweetheart Abbey'(with Photo). I have consulted BGS (I am not a geologist) and they opine that it is New Red Sandstone, mined in the Dumfries Basin. I believe them! 92.235.217.116 ( talk) 20:26, 4 March 2010 (UTC) reply

Welcome to Wikipedia - you might think about signing up as a registered user. Now as regards the Abbey - it would certainly make sense for it to be constructed of New Red Sandstone as its stands on or near a major outcrop of Permian rocks. The citations accompanying the text and photo don't give any hint as to the building material- if you can find, perhaps even within a BGS publication, a written reference to its construction that would be valuable and maybe it then gets moved on! Geopersona ( talk) 21:12, 4 March 2010 (UTC) reply

I was already looking when you replied, this link gives a Permian age for the building material. Mikenorton ( talk) 21:37, 4 March 2010 (UTC) reply

I swapped Sweetheart Abbey for St. Magnus Cathedral, which is definitely ORS. Mikenorton ( talk) 22:04, 4 March 2010 (UTC) reply

And further refinements made but now a technical Wiki page issue - in terms of the appearance of the article - how do we remove the blank space below 'Scotland' and indeed the rather bigger space at the head of the article? Geopersona ( talk) 06:25, 5 March 2010 (UTC) reply

Can we have a map showing where these ORS are?

IceDragon64 ( talk) 00:10, 27 December 2012 (UTC) reply

"in the west along the northeastern seaboard of North America" -- how about a little more discussion of this? 216.255.171.122 ( talk) 13:41, 29 June 2020 (UTC) reply

If you've referenced material to hand - you could add it! thanks Geopersona ( talk) 19:29, 29 June 2020 (UTC) reply

There is I understand Old Red Sandstone on the surface at the southerly tip of the Cowal peninsula at Toward point.

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