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Aspects of the Life and Works of Archibald Geikie
Sir Archibald Geikie KCB, OM, FRS (1835–1924) was one of the most eminent geologists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Geikie was instrumental in the development of the science of geology during this period and the eminence he attained
The Spence Shale Lagerstätte: an important window into Cambrian biodiversity
The Spence Shale Member of the Langston Formation is a Cambrian (Miaolingian: Wuliuan) Lagerstätte in northeastern Utah and southeastern Idaho. It is older than the more well-known Wheeler and Marjum Lagerstätten from western Utah, and the Burgess Shale f
A reassessment of the proposed ‘Lairg Impact Structure’ and its potential implications for the deep structure of northern Scotland
Simms and Ernstson propose the impact crater originally lay further east and was translocated westwards to its present location during the Caledonian Orogeny