The Geology of Britain: An Introduction (2000)

by Peter Toghill

Members	Reviews	Popularity	Average rating	Mentions
77	1	357,245	(3.61)	2
This text covers the geological history of Britain from over 2,000 million years ago to the present day. An introductory chapter covers basic geological principles, followed by chapters describing the rocks, minerals, and fossils of each period. The book is written for the lay person interested in the great variety of Britain's rocks and landscapes but also includes a wealth of information for students at all levels.… (more)

all members

▾Members

Recently added by

MichaelWarrenTew, SoLoLibrary, Weirdwolf, meimai2121, alaudacorax, Jane_Walt, daniellower, robert_goss

▾Tags

#not-mzn (1) #not-wrd (1) Acc:L8179 (1) Bar:L000008179 (1) biology (2) Britain (6) chemistry (2) Class:55(41) TOG (1) earth science (3) England (2) environment (2) geography (2) geology (22) geomorphology (2) Great Britain (2) HRB (2) labcoats-and-telescopes (1) military technology (1) natural history (3) non-fiction (3) physics (2) reference (2) rocks (2) science (7) Scotland (1) Shelf E2 (1) softcover (1) Stat:Loan (1) tronly1 (1) UK (1)

▾LibraryThing Recommendations

▾Lists

None

▾Will you like it?

▾Conversations (About links)

No current Talk conversations about this book.

» See also 2 mentions

▾Member reviews

Outstanding book and quite readable for the armchair geologist as well. I am using it to prepare an overview of geology in Britain. Well illustrated, and no "gee whiz" science in it. Fabulously illustrated (

)

Fred_Wilson | Aug 30, 2013 |

▾Published reviews

no reviews | add a review

▾Other authors

» Add other authors (1 possible)

▾Series and work relationships

▾Awards and Honors

view history

▾Common Knowledge

You must log in to edit Common Knowledge data.

For more help see the Common Knowledge help page.

Canonical title

Original title

Alternative titles

Original publication date

2000

People/Characters

Important places

Important events

Related movies

Epigraph

Dedication

Susan--for company in wild and often wet places, when
another photograph just needs to be taken.

Marianne and Elizabeth--for support and encouragement.

First words

Quotations

Last words

Disambiguation notice

Publisher's editors

Blurbers

Original language

Canonical DDC/MDS

Canonical LCC

▾References

References to this work on external resources.

Wikipedia in English (2)

Geology of Yorkshire

Welsh Basin

▾Book descriptions

This text covers the geological history of Britain from over 2,000 million years ago to the present day. An introductory chapter covers basic geological principles, followed by chapters describing the rocks, minerals, and fossils of each period. The book is written for the lay person interested in the great variety of Britain's rocks and landscapes but also includes a wealth of information for students at all levels.

▾Library descriptions

No library descriptions found.

▾LibraryThing members' description

Book description

Haiku summary