Scottish oil is topical. Most of Britain’s oil and gas deposits sit under the seabed around Scotland but the revenues are shared with the whole of the United Kingdom. If Scotland decides to become an independent state (there’s a vote in 2014) then that wealth will be all theirs. So I was very interested to read… Continue reading New Scottish Oil field discovered (470 million years too late)
Category: Scotland
Dalradian – a Celtic Supergroup
Geology is such a great thing to study because it involves making so many connections through time and space, switching scales from the cosmic to the atomic. This means that challenge for this series of posts about the geology of the west of Ireland is going to be managing scope. So. Although I could start… Continue reading Dalradian – a Celtic Supergroup
A bit of Scotland in an English playground
There is a park near my home that my children like. As is the way of things, this means I stand around it a lot, ready to rub bruised knees or produce biscuits or push ‘faster!’, but otherwise redundant. My attention often wanders to the big blocks of stone in the park – they are… Continue reading A bit of Scotland in an English playground
Mantle support of topography – a swell idea
Why are some bits of the earth higher than others? Finding mountains near plate boundaries is easy to explain – various forms of plate collision cause the crust to thicken and the surface to rise. What about Southern Africa? Reaching a high point of 3473m, most of Southern Africa is a high plateau. It is… Continue reading Mantle support of topography – a swell idea