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Autore: | Leeder Mike |
Titolo: | GeoBritannica : geological landscapes and the British peoples / / Mike Leeder & Joy Lawlor |
Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh, Scotland ; ; London, [England] : , : Dunedin, , 2017 |
©2017 | |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (515 pages) : color illustrations, photographs |
Disciplina: | 550.941 |
Soggetto topico: | Geology - Great Britain - History |
Human ecology - Great Britain | |
Soggetto geografico: | Great Britain |
Persona (resp. second.): | LawlorJoy |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
Nota di contenuto: | 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. |
Titolo autorizzato: | GeoBritannica |
ISBN: | 1-78046-567-X |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910157506503321 |
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