A new geodiversity audit describes North Lanarkshire's geoheritage, including the top twelve areas to visit and the best twenty sites for conservation.
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A new geodiversity audit describes North Lanarkshire's geoheritage, including the top twelve areas to visit and the best twenty sites for conservation.
A piece of the rock sequence that forms the Grand Canyon now sits thousands of kilometres away in Tasmania, Australia.
A giant gold nugget, claimed to be one of the biggest ever found in Britain, has been discovered in a Scottish river. It weighs 85.7g and has been estimated to be worth more than £50,000.
The International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) has defined a new division in geologic time, the Meghalayan Age, defined as the most recent age of the Holocene Epoch, extending from 4,200 years ago until the present.
A crowdfunding appeal has been set up to support reasearch into a newly discovered dinosaur site in Scotland. The funding is to meet researchers' travel and accommodation costs and to purchase material for use in the project.
The supplement includes a revision of the stratigraphy, an additional excursion itinerary and updated information about other excursions.
An SNH report gives an assessment of the risk from climate change to geological and geomorphological features in Scotland's SSSIs.
Members of the Loch Lomond & Trossachs National Park Authority Board have approved a planning application for mining of gold and silver at Cononish, Tyndrum.
An exhibition at New Lanark covers the geodiversity of the Clyde and Avon valleys and its influence on biodiversity and human activity.
Plans for Arran to be recognised as a UNESCO Global Geopark are taking shape and a management team has been set up to run the project.