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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Vault is Slate’s history blog. Like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter @slatevault, and find us on Tumblr. Find out more about what this space is all about here. This stunning geological map of ...

A study recently published in Nature Geosciencehas solved the mystery of a 60-million-year-old volcanic trail stretching from ...