02503nam 2200445 450 991015750650332120230809233656.01-78046-567-X(CKB)4340000000023178(MiAaPQ)EBC4762607(MiAaPQ)EBC4774315(EXLCZ)99434000000002317820170324h20172017 uy 0engurcnu||||||||rdacontentrdamediardacarrierGeoBritannica geological landscapes and the British peoples /Mike Leeder & Joy LawlorEdinburgh, Scotland ;London, [England] :Dunedin,2017.©20171 online resource (515 pages) color illustrations, photographs1-78046-060-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.GeologyGreat BritainHistoryHuman ecologyGreat BritainGreat BritainfastGeologyHistory.Human ecology550.941Leeder Mike506495Lawlor JoyMiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910157506503321GeoBritannica2793200UNINA