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  "This wall contains examples of rocks from all over Fife 400 million years ago, large rivers flowed through an arid landscape and massive lava flows erupted through fissures. 350 million years ago, when this area lay near the equator, great rivers covered the land and tropical swamps formed, generating Fife coal seams. Sometimes, sea levels rose and fossil-rich limestones were deposited. Fifty million years later, molten rock broke through the earth's crust again to form dolerite sills and explosive volcanoes."

Examples used include Volcanic Ash, Columnar Basalt, Quartz Dolerite, Olivine Dolerite, Andesite, Oil Shale, Tree Root, Algal Limestone, Massive Limestone, Red Devonian Sandstone, Shelly Limestone, Rippled Sandstone, Coral limestone, Conglomerate, Coal, Dolomitised Limestone, Cross-Bedded Sandstone, Felsite, Fossil Rootlets, Agate Rich Andesite, Crinoidal Limestone and Highland Schist!