Scientific American

The quirky geology behind Olympic curling stones

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

Chapters on the Geology of Scotland

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 ...
Nature

Memoirs of the Geological Survey, Scotland The Economic Geology of the Central Coalfield of Scotland Area 5: Glasgow East, Coatbridge and Airdrie; with Chryston, Glenboig ...

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 ...
London Evening Standard

Rock drilled from Great Glen Fault gives rare look into distant geological past

Geologists have been given a “one-of-a-kind” window into Scotland’s geological past as they analyse core rock drilled from the Great Glen Fault during investigations for a hydro-storage scheme. The ...
heraldscotland

Rock drilled from Great Glen Fault gives rare look into distant geological past

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