What better way to celebrate the Festival season than with a talk on awesome new #ScottishGeology research!
Join geologist and PhD student Anthony Clarke (Curtin University, Perth, Australia) for this online talk to hear about the recent study, published in Nature, which has revealed that the Stonehenge Altar Stone came from Scotland, not Wales!
The research team analysed zircon, apatite and rutile grains from within fragments of the Altar Stone. The chemical composition and the ages of these detrital mineral grains show a remarkable similarity between the Old Red Sandstone of the Orcadian Basin, indicating that the Altar stone is very likely to have come from northeast Scotland. The new discovery implies that one of the most famous stones in the world was moved at least 700km, much further than previously believed.
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Image – Curtin PhD candidate Anthony Clarke visiting Stonehenge in 2023 for this research. Credit – Curtin University.
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