The Grampian Highlands, 4th edition, by D. Stephenson and D. Gould. British Regional Geology Series, HMSO, London, 1995. No. of pages: 262. Price: £12. ISBN 0-11-884521-7.
✍ Scribed by Jack Treagus
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2000
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 39 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0072-1050
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✦ Synopsis
This new, fat, handsome edition is to be greatly welcomed. The 266 A5 pages boast 43 diagrams and 25 plates, mostly in splendid colour, as well as four beautifully executed folding plates illustrating the solid geology, the stratigraphic correlations, the distribution of the Caledonian igneous rocks and the structure in block-diagram form. Introductory chapters Ð a summary of the geology, an overview of the `basement' and an introduction to the stratigraphy, structure and metamorphism Ð account for 26 pages, whilst the principal chapters concerning the lithostratigraphy, the structure and Caledonian magmatism occupy 51, 30 and 34 pages, respectively. Other smaller chapters, of 5±7 pages in length, are concerned with the metamorphism, the Highland Border Complex, the post-Caledonian minor intrusions and with faulting and seismicity, the Devonian, the Carboniferous, the Perman, Triassic and Jurassic (the latter in a borehole). The Neogene (mostly erosion) gets half a page, whilst the Quaternary and economic deposits properly occupy 16 and 14 pages, respectively. The 32-page reference list will be immensely valuable, although its lack of indents makes it frustratingly dicult to use.