I. Murchison and Prof. Geikie, no general geological map of Scotland has, so far as we are aware, been issued, while those older than the sketch-map rather served as guides to localities where ...

A pensioner has said he has been “blown away” by the response to a map of Scotland he made using rocks collected on geology trips over almost 30 years, after his grandson’s post about the ...

“They know Scotland is where the science of geology started and it’s where ... The Trust has recently launched its Geosites project, an online map which will feature 1500 sites of national ...

The Great Glen Fault is a deep scar in the land which is visible from space. It first formed around 430-390 million years ago ...

From a bird's-eye view, Loch Ness, Loch Lochy, and Loch Linnhe make a straight line through the Scottish Highlands. This line is not a coincidence but rather the result of millions of years of ...

It was the world’s first nationwide geological map, and it helped develop stratigraphy and biostratigraphy ... the strata of England (from where Smith hailed), Wales and part of Scotland, and it was ...

William Smith's 1815 depiction of the geology of England, Wales and part of Scotland is a seminal piece of work. The first map of its kind produced anywhere in the world, only about 70 copies are ...

It was the first geological map of a nation ever produced, showing the geological strata of England, Wales and a part of Scotland. The map is thought to be one of the first ten copies made ...

That man was William “Strata” Smith, and his map of the rocks at the surface in England, Wales, and part of Scotland—completed in 1815—was the first major geologic map ever made.

You can see a full life-size replica of the map in our Images of Nature gallery. 2. Smith single-handedly mapped the geology of the whole of England, Wales and southern Scotland - an area of more than ...

William Smith's 1815 depiction of the geology of England, Wales and part of Scotland is a seminal piece of work. The first map of its kind produced anywhere in the world, only about 70 copies are ...