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GeoBritannica : geological landscapes and the British peoples /
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinbugh, Scotland :
Dunedin Academic Press Ltd,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.