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Leeder Mike |
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GeoBritannica : geological landscapes and the British peoples / / Mike Leeder & Joy Lawlor |
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Edinburgh, Scotland ; ; London, [England] : , : Dunedin, , 2017 |
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©2017 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (515 pages) : color illustrations, photographs |
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Geology - Great Britain - History |
Human ecology - Great Britain |
Great Britain |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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Part 1. '...the little space of this our island.' Introduction -- Affection for things geological -- Early discoveries -- Works of the imagination -- Part 2. Assembling the geological jigsaw. Mapping -- 'Deep time' and the 'mobile earth' -- Part 3. Remembrance of things past. Past geography and geological history -- Part 4. Material GeoBritannica. Settlement and communication -- Natural resources : general -- Building stone and aggregates -- Part 5. Mineral GeoBritannica. Metals and mineral salts -- Coal, peat and oil -- Part 6. 'To show to the world what exists in nature.' Architecture and monuments -- Sculpture -- Painting -- Literature -- Part 7. GeoRegions. Introduction to GeoRegions -- Assynt foreland and Outer Hebrides -- North west highlands and northern islands -- Grampian highlands and Argyll -- Midland Valley -- Formerly volcanic islands of the Inner Hebrides -- Southern uplands and Galloway -- Scottish-English borderlands -- Lakeland, its surrounds and the Isle of Man -- North Pennines -- South Pennines -- English midlands -- Welsh-English borderlands -- Northern Wales -- Southern Wales -- South west England -- Southern England -- Eastern and central scarplands. |
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