The Northern Highlands: Landscapes in Stone

by Alan McKirdy

Book Overview

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize 2019The rocks of northern Scotland tell of turbulent events involving continental collisions that unleashed cataclysmic forces, creating a chain of mountains, the remnants of which we see today on both sides of the Atlantic. Geologists from Victorian times onwards have studied the area, and some of the most important geological phenomena have been established and described from the rocks that built these stunning...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1780276087
• ISBN13: 9781780276083
• Release Date: September 2019
• Publisher: Birlinn
• Length: 48 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.3" x 8.8"