Sandstone and sea stacks :
- 出版日期：2011.
- 出版者：Frances Lincoln Ltd.,
- 页数：240 p. :
- 出版地：London :
- 第一责任说明：Ronald Turnbull.
- 尺寸：29 cm.
- 分类号：a253.2 ; a227.74
- ISBN：978-0-7112-3228-0(hbk.) :
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02h0027060 20121120165230.0 121018s2011 enkab fr |001|||eng | 978-0-7112-3228-0(hbk.) : CNY364.80 NGL 551.4570941 a253.2 ; a227.74 Turnbull, Ronald. Sandstone and sea stacks : a beachcomber's guide to Britain's coastal geology / Ronald Turnbull. London : Frances Lincoln Ltd., 2011. 240 p. : col. ill., col. maps ; 29 cm. Include index. The sea --Understanding sand --Antrim basalt --Hot rocks --How to make mountains --Chalk --Faults --Jurassic coast --Yorkshire rock --Red sandstone sandwich --Coal coasts --Controversial devon --Ancient days: perbrokeshire --Rock bottom. Sea Stacks and Sandstone is a celebration of Britain's coastal geology - ammonites and sand, sea stacks and wavecut platforms. It goes paddling in the rock pools to examine the rock samples so perfectly polished up for us by the sea. Between the lichen and the low-tide line, everything is out in the open to be looked at: desert sand dunes emerging out of the ocean; cliffs bent and crumpled by two continents crashing into each other; a band of red-hot basalt squeezed from somewhere in Scotland. Britain today lacks glaciers and volcanoes, but the grand geological earth-shifter we do see is the sea, hard at it around our 6000 miles of coast. And as you wander along the edge of the sand, gradually slowing your eye to the beach-holiday speed of looking at things, you see small creatures, seashells and corals from hundreds of millions of years ago. Real geology isn't looking up the books and memorising long words. Real geology is looking at real rock, and working out what has been happening to it. What Britain is and where it came from, just what's been going on for the last 500 million years: all is revealed, in a continuous slice around our seaside. Coasts Great Britain. aCN b010001 NGL 253.2 T84 wtxi1205 h1 ; rCNY364.80