Geological Map of Scotland. By Sir Archibald Geikie, Director-General of the Geological Survey of Great Britain and Ireland. With descriptive text. (Edinburgh: J. Bartholomew and Co., 1892.) ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

William Smith’s ‘A delineation of the strata of England and Wales, with part of Scotland’, published on 1st August 1815, is regarded as the first national geological map. A detail of the Bristol ...

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 ...