Hutton's Arse:3 Billion Years of Extraordinary Geology in Scotland's Northe Highlands

by: Malcolm Rider (Author),Peter Harrison(Author)

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Publication Date: 2019/7/25

Language: English

Print Length: 229 pages

ISBN-10: 1780460937

ISBN-13: 9781780460932

Book Description

The extraordinary and beautiful scenery of the Northe Scottish Highlands has been created by a geological history lasting over three billion years. The new and thoroughly up-dated edition of this popular book takes its readers through those three billion years, shows the rocks, visits the places, introduces some famous researchers and presents the geological theories that have been inspired by the Highlands. Even though the influence of this magnificent place can be overwhelming, the book is about geology and the mode science involved. It is written for all to understand. It is a book for non-specialists interested in mode science, scientists and all lovers of the Northe Scottish Highlands.The text is sometimes light-hearted, but the science is serious. The subjects covered are as wide as he the splitting open of the North Atlantic Ocean:a time when the Earth resembled mode Mars; early continent formation; billion year old bacteria; the very beginnings of human evolution; Snowball Earth; and, inevitably, climate change. This is mode science wrapped up in good writing and humour:a rare combination.

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The extraordinary and beautiful scenery of the Northe Scottish Highlands has been created by a geological history lasting over three billion years. The new and thoroughly up-dated edition of this popular book takes its readers through those three billion years, shows the rocks, visits the places, introduces some famous researchers and presents the geological theories that have been inspired by the Highlands. Even though the influence of this magnificent place can be overwhelming, the book is about geology and the mode science involved. It is written for all to understand. It is a book for non-specialists interested in mode science, scientists and all lovers of the Northe Scottish Highlands.The text is sometimes light-hearted, but the science is serious. The subjects covered are as wide as he the splitting open of the North Atlantic Ocean:a time when the Earth resembled mode Mars; early continent formation; billion year old bacteria; the very beginnings of human evolution; Snowball Earth; and, inevitably, climate change. This is mode science wrapped up in good writing and humour:a rare combination.