Portsoy has long been known for its important geological features but now researchers from the University of Aberdeen are using the rare assembly ...

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.) ...

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 ...

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.

The changes within Scotland are widespread. Only ten constituencies will be unaffected - and for two of them in Orkney and Shetland and the western isles, it's because they are protected by law.

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 ...

The ‘updated’ geological map contains several and multiple errors and replicates the significant stratigraphical omissions and mapping errors of the geological maps produced from during the ...

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 ...

Measuring 50 metres by 40 metres, the Great Polish Map of Scotland is said to be the largest terrain relief model in the world. It was built between 1974 and 1979, and is the brainchild of Polish ...

Chinese astronomers have shared the most detailed geological map of the moon ever created, revealing more than 12,000 structures. The new atlas will be essential for picking out landing locations ...

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 ...