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 ...

The Scottish Borders contain key geological evidence that a wide ocean once separated Scotland from England around 420 million years ago. But this evidence is complex, cryptic and obscured by later ...

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 ...

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 ...

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