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Geologists say they have been given a "one-of-a-kind" window into Scotland's past, after getting a chance to analyse core ...

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 - ...

James Hutton's visit to Siccar Point in the 1780s led to a change in the way the history of the Earth is understood.

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 ...

Two Scottish sites have been included on a list of globally important geology. Siccar Point in the Scottish Borders is regarded as the birthplace of geological science. The second feature, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...