Fingal's Cave Fingal's Cave Fingal's Cave is a sea cave on the uninhabited island of Staffa, in the Inner Hebrides of Scotland, known for its natural acoustics. The National Trust for Scotland owns the cave as part of a National Nature Reserve. It became known as Fingal's Cave after the eponymous hero of an epic poem by 18th-century Scots poet-historian James Macpherson. Fingal's Cave is formed entirely from hexagonally jointed basalt columns within a Paleocene lava flow, similar in structure to the Giant's Causeway in Northern Ireland and those of nearby Ulva. In all these cases, cooling on the upper and lower
Geological Survey of Canada conduct fieldwork in the early 1950's . Dr. Alice Wilson, the first of these women, lobbied for the inclusion of paleontologist Frances Wagner shortly afterward. Around this same time, the GSC employed a third woman Dr. Helen Belyea. The Canadian National Seismograph Network is monitored by the Geological Survey of Canada. The Geological Survey Canada operates a network of 14 magnetic observatories throughout Canada, located as follows: Notes Bibliography Geological Survey of Canada The Geological Survey of Canada (GSC; ) is a Canadian federal government agency responsible for performing geological surveys of the country, developing Canada's natural resources and protecting