GeoBritannica : geological landscapes and the British peoples / / Mike Leeder & Joy Lawlor

• Autore: Leeder Mike
• 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
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II