The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so ...

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Two Scottish sites have been included on a list of globally important geology. Siccar Point in the Scottish Borders is regarded as the birthplace of geological science. The second feature, the ...

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 - ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...