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Dartmoor (Hardcover)
Ian Mercer
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Discovery Miles 12 820
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All landscapes are built on rock: from hard stone for building
with, to the softest clay or sand. Each piece of rock is a
storehouse of prehistorical information; even a simple pebble from
the garden has its own complex tale to tell. Geology is the great
detective science that can unlock these secrets. In this
entertaining and eye-opening book, the authors take a deep dive –
quite literally – into their home county of Essex. We are all
living in an ice age, an ongoing event that has hugely affected
Essex over the last 3 million years. Yet this county was born more
than 500 million years ago. Our story begins when the land we know
as Essex was part of a large continent close to the South Pole,
tracing the geological processes that continue to shape the
countryside around us. The form of the land, boulders on village
greens, road cuttings, cliffs, stones in church walls – they can
all bring geology to light in unexpected and fascinating ways.
Aimed at a general readership with no scientific background but
equally appealing to the seasoned geologist, chapters progress from
fundamentals to intricate details of geological investigations and
cutting-edge research. Richly illustrated with photographs and
colour diagrams, here the geology of a county is visualised and
brought to life as never before, along with pertinent environmental
insights in the light of climate change that is happening now.
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Dartmoor
Ian Mercer
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R329
Discovery Miles 3 290
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