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 ...

WHAT is beneath our feet? Another world, actually “We stand atop a vast, invisible dominion of soil and rock, rifts and mines, chambers, veins, minerals and groundwater,” author Robert Macfarlane ...

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