The red sandstone stack of the Old Man of Hoy is a joy to behold from a hike along the cliffs. It’s one of the UK’s highest rock stacks and soars 137m above the sea, but be quick – he’s approaching ...

DR. T. S. WESTOLL, who is succeeding Prof. Hickling in the chair of geology in King‘s College, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, has had a distinguished career in geology and vertebrate palæontology.

To create the map, the researchers amassed over 2,000 stress orientations taken across North America, of which 300 are brand new. These measurements were taken from boreholes—long, narrow shafts ...