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  • Hardcover: 247 pages
  • Publisher: Dunedin Academic Press; illustrated edition edition (30 Sep 2004)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1903765404
  • ISBN-13: 978-1903765401
  • Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 513,643 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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    #26 in  Books > Science & Nature > Environment & Ecology > Natural Disasters > Earthquakes
    #27 in  Books > Scientific, Technical & Medical > Geology > Volcanology & Seismology
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3.0 out of 5 stars Exciting story, pity about the fuzzy volcanoes, 15 Aug 2006
By R. A. Williams "Rosemary the rock nut" (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews
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This is an account of the contribution of volcanic action to Scotland's landscapes, written by a specialist for non-specialists. Accordingly there is an introduction to vulcanology which anyone who knows a bit about the subject can skip. There are also explanations of geological terms, but as these are scattered through the text rather than listed at the end (though there is an index for them), they can be irritatingly slow to find if you want to refresh your memory - as you probably will, since the author can't help getting at least mildly technical in many places.
Unlike most geology books, which start in deep time and work their way towards the present, this book does the reverse, starting with the most recent (Tertiary) volcanoes of the West, which are naturally the best preserved, and working back to the really ancient stuff. In one way this is a good idea, since it's much easier to identify the more recent features. In another it isn't, owing to the unavoidable fact that the landscape developed in reverse order, and to understand the causes of a phenomenon you really have to know what happened before. This leads to some clumsy cross-referencing.
Having grouched a bit, I have to say that for an amateur geologist like me the book is pitched just right. I read it practically at a sitting and it makes me yearn to go and see some more of the relevant landscapes. The only big disappointment is the extremely poor quality of the colour photos. Some are so fuzzy that the feature they are supposed to illustrate is scarcely visible. In these days of fast and easy colour reproduction this is really inexcusable, especially in view of the substantial price tag.
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