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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A Scots grandad has been hailed as a 'rock star' by his proud family after collecting stones from across Scotland to make a stunning map of the nation. Harry Young, of Newton Mearns, began his quest ...

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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 ...

A newly released map reveals the widespread impact of the 3.4 magnitude earthquake that struck the UK late last night. The ...

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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The remnants of a 2-billion-year-old nuclear reactor and a cave of house-sized crystals might ...