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![Nastassja Simenski and Angenita Teekens visiting the National Geological Respository . © Emma Bee](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/core-library-users-artists-280923.jpg)
The art of boreholes: Essex artists visit the BGS to be inspired by our library of geological core
Two UK-based artists visitors aim to turn art and earth science into a collaborative experience that facilitates discussion on land usage.
![Pyroclastic density current deposits from the 18 May 1980 eruption exposed along drainages in the pumice plain. BGS © UKRI](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG-20230816-WA0008.jpg)
In photos: a volcanic field trip
Volcanologist Samantha Engwell visited the Cascades in the United States to learn more about the 1980 Mount St Helens volcanic eruption.
![Detail of a building in Thistle Court, Edinburgh, built around 1768 and one of the oldest buildings in the Edinburgh New Town. The stone is a mixture of locally derived material, with pale yellow-buff and pink sandstones and darker reddish-purple igneous rocks. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/P530859_960px.jpg)
Scotland’s building stones: over one thousand images now available online
New images of the BGS Building Stone Collection have been published.
![BGS’s Emrys Phillips examining the Stone of Scone at Edinburgh Castle in 1998. BGS © UKRI.](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/emerys-phillips-1998-960x653.jpg)
The Stone of Destiny
The origins of the Stone of Scone: where it came from, why BGS has crumbs of it in its collections and the little-known fact that it is upside down.
![Bicycle in the Scottish Borders](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/scottish-borders-bike.jpg)
Geology and cycling: the rocks behind the race
The UK’s biggest and most prestigious bike race would not be what it is today, without a nod to the humble rock.
![artist's impression of Auroralumina attenboroughii](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/auroralumina_3_web.jpg)
560-million-year-old fossil is first animal predator
The specimen is the first of its kind to be found and is related to the group that includes modern corals, jellyfish and anemones.
![Portrait of Mary Anning by Benjamin John Merifield Donne, 1850](https://www.bgs.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/Mary_Anning_portrait_web.jpg)
Mary Anning: a remarkable fossil collector
Simon Harris explains what a letter, sent by Anning in 1822, can tell us about her life and work at the time.