Boulder, Colo., USA: Noted Turkish geologist, and member of the American Philosophical Society and the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Dr. A.M. Celâl Şengör has taken on the Herculean task of ...

The three-day meeting on the origin of the granites that opens in Edinburgh on September 14 is billed as a symposium celebrating the bicentenary of the work of James Hutton. But who is this James ...

In this engaging account of scientific discovery, Repcheck (an acquiring editor at Norton) aims to elevate the little-known Scottish geologist James Hutton (1726–1797) into the lofty company of ...

Climate change may seem a uniquely 21st-century concern, but people have been wrestling with the idea for a long time.

THE Southern Province of New Zealand is one of great interest from the variety of its physical features which faithfully indicate the wide range of geological formations of which it is built up. The ...

THE Royal Society of Edinburgh, in conjunction with the Royal Physical Society, the Edinburgh Geological Society, the Geological Society of Glasgow, and H.M. Geological Survey (Scotland), has ...