Northern Highlands: Landscapes in Stone

The rocks of northern Scotland reveal turbulent events involving continental collisions, creating a chain of mountains and fossils dating back to Jurassic times. Geologists have studied the area for centuries, and Alan McKirdy's book makes sense of the many and varied episodes that shaped the familiar landscape.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 48 pages
Publication date: 11 July 2019
Publisher: Birlinn General

Longlisted for the Highland Book Prize, the rocks of northern Scotland hold a rich history of turbulent events involving continental collisions that unleashed cataclysmic forces, creating a chain of mountains that we see today on both sides of the Atlantic. Geologists from Victorian times onwards have studied the area, and some of the most important geological phenomena have been established and described from the rocks that built these stunning landscapes. In this book, Alan McKirdy makes sense of the many and varied episodes that shaped the familiar landscape we see today. He highlights a number of fascinating geological features, including the Old Red Sandstones of Cromarty and the Black Isle, which carry the secrets of life during 'the Age of Fishes,' and the thin sliver of fossil-bearing strata which hugs the coast from Golspie to beyond Helmsdale that dates back to Jurassic times and which records the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth.

Weight: 180g
Dimension: 227 x 177 x 5 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781780276083