Scotland. Peter Friend

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      Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

      Editors’ Preface

      Authors’ Foreword and Acknowledgements

      CHAPTER 1 - Looking at Scotland’s Landscapes

      CHAPTER 2 - Surface Modifications

      CHAPTER 3 - Movements of the Earth from Within

      CHAPTER 4 - Episodes in the Bedrock History of Scotland

      CHAPTER 5 - Later Surface Modifications

      CHAPTER 6 - Area 1: Galloway

      CHAPTER 7 - Area 2: Southern Borders

      CHAPTER 8 - Area 3: Jura to Arran

      CHAPTER 9 - Area 4: Glasgow

      CHAPTER 10 - Area 5: Edinburgh

      CHAPTER 11 - Area 6: Mull

      CHAPTER 12 - Area 7: Rannoch

      CHAPTER 13 - Area 8: Dundee

      CHAPTER 14 - Area 9: Uists and Barra

      CHAPTER 15 - Area 10: Skye

      CHAPTER 16 - Area 11: Affric

      CHAPTER 17 - Area 12: Cairngorm

      CHAPTER 18 - Area 13: Aberdeen

      CHAPTER 19 - Area 14: Lewis and Harris

      CHAPTER 20 - Area 15: Cape Wrath

      CHAPTER 21 - Area 16: Inverness

      CHAPTER 22 - Area 17: Caithness

      CHAPTER 23 - Area 18: Orkney

      CHAPTER 24 - Area 19: Shetland

      CHAPTER 25 - Overview

       Further Reading

       List of Searchable Terms

       The New Naturalist Library

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

      Editors’ Preface

      IN HIS EARLIER NEW NATURALIST VOLUME on the natural landscapes of Southern England, the author, Peter Friend, presented a new vision of landscape, providing a geological background for our understanding of the distribution and variation of flora and fauna in the lowland parts of Britain.

      A division of Britain into lowland and highland regions has often been made in descriptions of our flora and fauna, for example by Arthur Tansley in his classic book on Types of British Vegetation (1911). Now Peter Friend has turned his attention to Scotland, the major highland part of Britain. In contrast to the sedimentary origin of the ‘soft’ rocks of the lowlands, the ‘hard’ rocks of Scotland arise from a series of events in the Earth’s crust dating back to the earliest years of the planet, which were far less understood in the days when Dudley Stamp’s New Naturalist volume on Britain’s Structure and Scenery was published in 1946. The resulting structures, now much better understood, underlie Scotland’s great variations in rock type and altitudes. Allied to this is the effect of the northern climate on the distribution of plants and animals, making the Highlands an area of particular interest from the biogeographical point of view, a mountainous region in the far west of Europe, adjacent to the Atlantic.

      The illustrations featured in this book take full account of the possibilities of aerial and satellite photography in analysing topography, showing the relation between the geology, the soils, and the directions and angles of sloping features – all factors which must affect flora and fauna. The arrangement into areas, each with a similar treatment and analysis of the landscape, makes the subject very accessible to those interested in the geology or visiting the areas, and to those studying the fauna and flora and wishing to understand the physical background of the natural history. This book is a welcome addition to the New Naturalist Library, and will strengthen our understanding of the important and basic relationships between geology and natural history.

      Authors’ Foreword and Acknowledgements

      THE PLEASURE OF ENJOYING A LANDSCAPE is greatly increased and deepened by developing some feeling for the events in the history of the Earth that may have caused it. This approach was followed in 2008, when Southern England, by Peter Friend, appeared as New Naturalist 108. The object was to provide a systematic general review of the landscapes visible in the countryside extending from Land’s End in the southwest to East Anglia in the east. Peter has now been joined by two others, Leah Jackson-Blake and James Sample, to apply a similar approach to Scotland.

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