Geological Map of Scotland. By Sir Archibald Geikie, Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive text. (Edinburgh: J. Bartholomew and Co., 1892.) ...

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 ...

Fifteen facts about this ground-breaking map: 1. The complete map measures 2.6m by 1.8m and is made up of 15 sections. You can see a full life-size replica of the map in our Images of Nature gallery.

News; Scottish News; Newton Mearns 'Rock star' pensioner makes amazing map of Scotland with stones from across nation The 85-year-old began his quest to collect rocks from every corner of the ...

The 1815 Geological Map of England and Wales, made by William Smith, was initially thought lost. It was the first geological map of a nation ever produced, ... Wales and a part of Scotland.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

His grandson, Harry Jefferies, posted photos of his grandfather with the rock map to X, formerly known as Twitter, with the caption: “My grandpa who is 85 started making this rock map of Scotland in ...