THE late Dr. B. N. Peach, of the Scottish Geological Survey, is well known to have advocated the view that the Moine gneiss, the most extensive formation in Scotland, is the metamorphosed eastern ...

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Siccar Point has been described as the birthplace of geological science Two sites in Scotland have been included on a list of 100 internationally important geological locations Siccar Point in the ...

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As Scotland struggles with questions of independence, the British Geological Survey might be seen as making its own geopolitical gesture by republishing the most ambitious of the early geological ...

Two important geological sites in Scotland have made it into the world’s ‘rock’ hall of fame. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's Way tour of Scotland emailed direct to you. The ...

Three dramatic landscapes on Scotland's west coast are in the top ten favourite attractions in the UK for holidaying geology fans, according to new satellite data. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - ...

Scotland's geology is under threat, SNH's Colin MacFadyen said Irresponsible drilling of holes into rocks to extract samples threaten to "annihilate" geological features in Scotland, a public body has ...

THIS memoir is a new edition (with corrections and additions) of that on the same area, first published in 1916. In addition to minor corrections and amplifications, Chapter ii. dealing with the ...

AbstractWe present an impactoclastic density current model for terrestrial meteorite impact ejecta emplacement that is based on a hitherto-unreported threefold sequence of lithofacies in the recently ...

Irresponsible drilling of holes into rocks to extract samples threaten to "annihilate" geological features in Scotland, a public body has warned. Rock coring is done for research of rocks' chemical ...