Scotland's dramatic volcanic landscape once rivalled the fiery activity of modern-day Hawaii, scientists have discovered. Geologists from the University of Aberdeen have confirmed that cracks in the ...

Time on earth and a brief history of Scotland -- Magmas, igneous rocks and volcanic products -- Lava flows and pyroclastic deposits -- Early Cainozoic volcanism and the birth of the North Atlantic -- ...

About sixty million years ago, the Icelandic mantle plume—a fountain of hot rock that rises from Earth’s core-mantle boundary—unleashed volcanic activity across a vast area of the North Atlantic, ...

Introduction -- Time on Earth and a brief history of Scotland -- Magma and igneous rocks -- Lava flows and pyroclastic deposits -- Paleocene fissure and shield volcanism in the Hebrides -- Hebridean ...

What do the rumblings of Iceland's volcanoes have in common with the now peaceful volcanic islands off Scotland's western coast and the spectacular basalt columns of the Giant's Causeway in Northern ...