Investigation work on a hydro scheme in Lochaber allows geologists "spectacular and unique" access.
Scientists with the British Geological Survey (BGS) have been given a unique opportunity to study rock core samples taken ...
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 ...
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 ...
James Hutton's visit to Siccar Point in the 1780s led to a change in the way the history of the Earth is understood.
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 ...
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 ...
A VIEWPOINT which overlooks one of the world's most important geological sites could be set to receive a major upgrade ...
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The Hampden Roar was so powerful it literally shook the earth and triggered earthquake monitors, according to the British Geological Survey.