Investigation work on a hydro scheme in Lochaber allows geologists "spectacular and unique" access.

Scientists with the British Geological Survey (BGS) have been given a unique opportunity to study rock core samples taken ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIS memoir is a new edition (with corrections and additions) of that on the same area, first published in 1916. In addition to minor corrections and amplifications, Chapter ii. dealing with the ...

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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 ...