The Ted Kellock Geological Thin Section Collection
Amateur geologist and Naturalist Ted Kellock (1920 –2009) served in India & Burma during the war in the REME and lived in Orkney for a time in the 1960s as Customs & Excise officer at Scapa Distillery. He collected mainly igneous and metamorphic rocks from Orkney, Shetland, Scotland and worldwide.
He was responsible for collection, cataloguing and describing the upper Permian suite of ± 200 Lamprophyre Dyke Rocks, as well as studying the Devonian igneous rocks of Deerness published in the Scottish Journal of Geology 1969 "Alkaline basic igneous rocks in the Orkneys". The hand specimens he cut, prepared, ground and mounted as microscope thin sections all on equipment designed and built by himself. He donated his collection of about 4000 rock slides and associated hand specimens to the Museum as a study collection.
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The Quekett Microscopical Club funded a project at the Museum to have the catalogue of the slides made accessible.
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