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 ...

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 ...

THE first half of the course of Swiney Lectures on geology are being delivered (December 6-17) by Dr. Douglas A. Allan, director of the Royal Scottish Museum, at the Museum itself in Chambers Street, ...

Come join Bates’ own Visiting Professor Calvin Mako as we enjoy pizza, cider, and talk about some of the geological processes involved in mountain building in sunny Scotland.

TWIN FALLS • Nearly 30 College of Southern Idaho students kicked off their summer by taking classes across the globe. Students recently returned from two academic trips: field geology in Scotland and ...

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 ...

THE beauty of Scotland’s natural wilderness is to be unearthed by a local geologist in a new BBC series. East Kilbride born professor Iain Stewart will be taking a fresh look at Scotland’s landscape – ...