The elders also highlighted the imagery of symbolically significant animals, such as anacondas, jaguars, bats and herons, as ...

This used to be sand and other sediment - that's why it is called sandstone - which is a ... There is a rock called Lewisian Gneiss in this area, the oldest rock in Western Europe.

And this is where our small green sandstone rock comes into the story. Those mid-Pliocene sea-levels imply the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, or at least significant parts of it, had melted away - and ...

Our scientists have been looking for a rock that formed so long ago it was on Earth before complex life lived on land. Called Lewisian gneiss, it’s the oldest rock in the UK. It’s found in the ...