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 ...

SINCE the publication of the last edition of the sketch-map by Sir R. I. Murchison and Prof. Geikie, no general geological map of Scotland has, so far as we are aware, been issued, while those older ...

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A pensioner has said he has been “blown away” by the response to a map of Scotland he made using rocks collected on geology trips over almost 30 years, after his grandson’s post about the artwork went ...

The archives of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University hold one million items including as manuscripts, maps, letters, field journals, films and photographs. All of these items remain ...

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THERE have been many attempts to frame a popular definition of man. To call him a “story-loving animal” would not be the worst of them. It may indeed turn out when we understand monkey-talk a little ...

Eugene Shoemaker with some of the first geologic maps of the Moon, Flagstaff AZ, mid-1960's Many people are surprised when they learn that well before the first landing of Apollo in 1969, we already ...