The Lewisian: Britain's Oldest Rocks

by Park Graham

The first 2,500 million years of the geological history of Britain are stored in the gneisses of the Lewisian Complex of North West Scotland. This book explores the long journey of discovery in which this history has been gradually deciphered since the end of the 19th Century when these rocks were first investigated in detail. The usual tools of stratigraphic investigation were of no value in dealing with such a complex assemblage of highly deformed...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780460988
• ISBN13: 9781780460987
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 2.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.1" x 10.4"