Called Lewisian gneiss, it’s the oldest rock in the UK. It’s found in the northwest extremity of the Scottish mainland and the Western Isles. The gneiss’s new home is in our gardens, where it forms ...

Named for the Isle of Lewis, where it was first described, Lewisian gneiss was born from volcanic activity deep in the crust more than three billion years ago. Intensively and repeatedly altered ...

The oldest rock in our garden comes from the Western Isles and the west coast of Scotland, where a rock formation called the Lewisian Gneiss Complex contains the oldest rocks in the UK. Gneiss has a ...

They make up the different landmasses? CONNOR: Yes. There is a rock called Lewisian Gneiss in this area, the oldest rock in Western Europe. The same rock type is found in Canada and Greenland ...

"The sculptural form is built out of the same Lewisian Gneiss rock on which it sits and sourced from a quarry less than five ...

Luisa Hendry Luisa has turned what started out as a childhood interest in rocks into a career Scotland's rich geology includes Lewisian Gneiss. At about three billion years old they are Scotland's ...

Let's say that the Natural History Museum has been "renaturalized" and projected in space and time, starting with the Lewisian gneiss rock formations from the island of Barra in Scotland (2.7 ...

Each of these areas has a very different geological history. Coll is one of the islands composed of Lewisian gneiss. North-western Mull consists of basalt lava-flows from the vents in the central ...

"The name means 'little hidden one by the rock' as the sculptural form is designed around a substantial Lewisian Gneiss rock that dominates the site," said Izat Arundell. Internally, the living ...