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Volcanoes and the making of Scotland / Brian Upton.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Upton, B. G. J., author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Volcanoes--Scotland.
- Volcanoes.
- Scotland--History.
- Scotland.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (252 p.)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Edinburgh, [Scotland] : Dunedin Academic Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Brian Upton explores Scotland's volcanoes from the most recent examples to volcanoes of the obscure Precambrian times which left their signature in the ancient rocks of the far north-west.
- Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Contents; Foreword; Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: Time on Earth and a Brief History of Scotland; Chapter 3: Magmas and Igneous Rocks; Chapter 4: Lava Flows and Pyroclastic Deposits; Chapter 5: Paleocene Fissure and Shield Volcanism in the Hebrides; Chapter 6: Hebridean Paleocene Volcanoes: the Big Ones; Chapter 7: Scotland within a Super-continent: Upper Carboniferous and Permian Volcanoes; Chapter 8: Post-Caledonian Relaxation: the Lower Carboniferous Volcanoes; Chapter 9: Volcanoes of the Old Red Sandstone Continent; Chapter 10: Volcanoes and the Iapetus Ocean
- Chapter 11: Descent to the Dark Ages: Volcanic scenes from the PrecambrianChapter 12: Epilogue; Select Bibliography; Index; Copyright; Other Titles
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-78046-541-6
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