Around 1.2 billion years ago – give or take a few million – the northwest of Scotland was shaken to its core and a huge chunk of rock weighing nearly a quarter of a million tons and longer than a ...

The coastal town of Gairloch is well known for its rugged oceanfront and diverse natural landscape. It features on Scotland ...

Irresponsible drilling of holes into rocks to extract samples threaten to "annihilate" geological features in Scotland, a public body has warned. Rock coring is done for research of rocks' chemical ...

Three dramatic landscapes on Scotland's west coast are in the top ten favourite attractions in the UK for holidaying geology fans, according to new satellite data. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - ...

Explore the fascinating geology and history of Edinburgh in this video. 00:00 Intro 01:19 The Geology 03:54 The Old Town 06:23 Ad Break 08:14 A Unique Town 11:24 How to Expand 14:31 The New Town 16:15 ...

Two important geological sites in Scotland have made it into the world’s ‘rock’ hall of fame. Sign up to our Scotsman Rural News - A weekly of the Hay's Way tour of Scotland emailed direct to you. The ...

THE late Dr. B. N. Peach, of the Scottish Geological Survey, is well known to have advocated the view that the Moine gneiss, the most extensive formation in Scotland, is the metamorphosed eastern ...

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 ...