Around 1.2 billion years ago – give or take a few million – the northwest of Scotland was shaken to its core and a huge chunk of rock weighing nearly a quarter of a million tons and longer than a ...

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 ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

Dinosaurs bigger than a double-decker bus roamed the Isle of Skye 170 million years ago, scientists say. Dozens of footprints of early sauropods — the largest animals to walk the planet — were ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...