John Horne was a Scottish

Scotland

Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...

 geologist. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1900. He was a pupil of Ben Peach

Ben Peach

Benjamin Neeve Peach, FRS was a British geologist.He was born at Gorran Haven in Cornwall to Charles William Peach, an amateur British naturalist and geologist. Ben was educated at the Royal School of Mines in London and then joined the Geological Survey in 1862 as a geologist, moving to the...

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Horne was born in 1848 near Stirling, Scotland and was educated at Glasgow University. He joined the Scottish Branch of the Geological Survey in 1867 as an assistant and became an apprentice to Benjamin Peach. The two soon became good friends and collaborators. Horne was involved in mapping the Midland Valley. Horne was a logical thinker and writer, complementing Peach's skills of resolving the internal structure of mountains by looking at the surface rocks. After their work in the Highlands, Horne and Peach wrote 'Northwest Highlands Memoir' in 1907. The work is regarded as one of the most important geological memoirs. Horne wrote most of the memoir himself. From 1901 until 1911, John Horne was the Director of the Scottish Branch of the Survey. He died in 1928.

A monument to the work of Peach and Horne was erected at Inchnadamph

Inchnadamph

Inchnadamph is a hamlet in Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland. The name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Innis nan Damh meaning 'meadow of the stags'...

, close to the Moine Thrust

Moine Thrust Belt

The Moine Thrust Belt is a linear geological feature in the Scottish Highlands which runs from Loch Eriboll on the north coast 190 km south-west to the Sleat peninsula on the Isle of Skye...

 where they did some of their best-known work. The inscription reads: "To Ben N Peach and John Horne who played the foremost part in unravelling the geological structure of the North West Highlands 1883-1897. An international tribute. Erected 1980."

See also

• Knockan Crag
  Knockan Crag
  Knockan Crag is a line of cliffs in Assynt, Scotland north of Ullapool. The name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic Creag a' Chnocain meaning 'crag of the small hill'....
  
  
• Inchnadamph
  Inchnadamph
  Inchnadamph is a hamlet in Assynt, Sutherland, Scotland. The name is an anglicisation of the Gaelic name Innis nan Damh meaning 'meadow of the stags'...
  
  
• North West Highlands Geopark
  North West Highlands Geopark
  The North West Highlands Geopark is a geopark in the Scottish Highlands. Awarded UNESCO geopark status in 2004, it features some of the oldest rocks in Europe, around 3,000 million years old...
  
  
• Geology of Scotland
  Geology of Scotland
  The geology of Scotland is unusually varied for a country of its size, with a large number of differing geological features. There are three main geographical sub-divisions: the Highlands and Islands is a diverse area which lies to the north and west of the Highland Boundary Fault; the Central...
  
  

External links

• Scottish Geology - John Horne at www.scottishgeology.com