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The UK and Ireland have a long history of world-leading geological research. These sites are some of the most important in the history of our science, from type localities to sites of historical controversies.
The UK and Ireland have a long history of world-leading geological research.
These sites are some of the most important in the history of our science, from type localities to sites of historical controversies.
County Antrim, Northern Ireland
The site is world renowned for its role 200 years ago in the battle between the ‘Neptunists’ and the ‘Vulcanists’ over how igneous rocks were formed.
Shropshire, England
The science of geology has taken a number of local names from Roderick Murchison’s studies of these rocks in the 1830s, which are now applied worldwide. The Ludlow epoch is named after the town.
Berwickshire, Scotland
Siccar Point is famous in the history of geology for Hutton’s Unconformity, identified in 1788, which James Hutton regarded as proof of his uniformitarian theory.
Skye, Inner Hebrides, Scotland
One of the peninsula’s most well known features is the Trotternish landslip, containing two of Skye’s most famous landmarks; the Old Man of Storr and the Quiraing.
Perth & Kinross, Scotland
One of the most familiar and best known mountains in Scotland, Schiehallion was selected in 1774 by Charles Mason to be part of an experiment attempting to estimate the mass of the Earth.
Scotland
The northern coast of Aberdeenshire features the type locality for Buchan type metamorphism, as well as spectacular scenery.
Tyne and Wear, England
These spectacular cliffs are key to the understanding of the original Magnesian Limestone succession and the catastrophic marine inundation that created the Zechstein sea.
Lairg, Highlands, Scotland
The Arnaboll Thrust on the east side of Loch Eriboll is where the term mylonite was first used, and features Lewisian gneisses above Lower Cambrian Pipe Rock.
Perthshire, Scotland
One of the earliest geologists to visit Glen Tilt was James Hutton in 1785, whose studies there helped with his concept of deep geological time: ‘no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.’
Lizard Peninsula, Cornwall, England
Kynance Cove became popular in the early Victorian era. Its distinctive green and red serpentine rocks have been polished by the sea over thousands of years.
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