Essex Rock: geology beneath the landscape

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 secre...

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Vorheriger Titel:Lucy, Gerald Essex Rock
Hauptverfasser: Mercer, Ian (VerfasserIn), Mercer, Ros (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Johnson, Trevor (IllustratorIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Exeter Pelagic Publishing 2022
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Zusammenfassung: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, 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.
Beschreibung:"This book is a greatly expanded and updated version of Gerald Lucy's work of the same title, now out of print, which was published by the Essex Rock and Mineral Society in 1999."
Beschreibung:416 Seiten
ISBN:1784272795
9781784272791