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 ...

Our new study published in Nature shows that the Altar Stone's age fingerprint identifies it as coming from the Orcadian Basin in north-east Scotland.

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Intense folding took place in the Upper Jurassic epoch, the pressure acting from the south-west; and the latest and still more important folding, this time induced from the north-east, is of ...

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In Aberdeen, field-work on the Old Red Sandstone of various areas of north-east Scotland, the Orkneys and Shetlands and on their faunas has been actively continued, along with investigations of ...

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Our new study published in Nature shows that the Altar Stone's age fingerprint identifies it as coming from the Orcadian Basin in north-east Scotland.