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 ...

James Hutton's visit to Siccar Point in the 1780s led to a change in the way the history of the Earth is understood.

A trail spotlighting some of western Europe’s oldest rocks has been proposed at a village in the Scottish Highlands. Geology enthusiasts and keen hikers would be able to access a new walking route in ...

Geologists exploring volcanic rocks on Scotland's Isle of Skye found something out-of-this-world instead: ejecta from a previously unknown, 60 million-year-old meteorite impact. The discovery, the ...

With the tercentenary of ‘the founder of modern geology’ just months away, plans are afoot to improve access to the places ...

James Hutton studied law and medicine and was not a good writer — he initially became a farmer but ended up becoming a celebrated geologist View of cliffs and water of the Firth of Forth from the ...

Researchers discover rare periods of a few thousands years when climate unexpectedly awoke from slumber During the ”snowball Earth” period about 700m years ago, Earth’s climate shut down. The planet ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. From A Journey Through England and ...

FOR the first time in the history of University Education in Scotland, we are to-day met to begin the duties of a Chair specially devoted to the cultivation of Geology and Mineralogy. ' Though Science ...