Screen LibraryThe geology of Ireland
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| Group Author: | ; ; |
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| Published: |
Dunedin Academic,
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| Publisher Address: | Edinburgh |
| Publication Dates: | c2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | 2nd ed. |
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| Carrier Form: | 568 p.: ill. (some col.), maps (some col.) ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9781903765715 (hbk.) 1903765714 (hbk.) 1903765722 (pbk.) 9781903765722 |
| Index Number: | P945 |
| CLC: | P945.62 |
| Call Number: | P945.62/G345/2nd.ed. |
| Contents: |
Previous ed.: 2001. Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction / C.H. Holland and I.S. Sanders -- Precambrian / J.S. Daly -- Ordovician of the North / J.R. Graham -- Grampian Orogeny / D.M. Chew -- Cambrian of Leinster / C.H. Holland -- Ordovician of the South / J.R. Graham and C.J. Stillman -- Silurian / C.H. Holland -- Late Caledonian orogeny and magmatism / D.M. Chew and C.J. Stillman -- Devonian / J.R. Graham -- Carboniferous : Mississippian (Tournaisian and Viséan) / G.D. Sevastopulo and P.N. Wyse Jackson -- Carboniferous : Mississippian (Serpukhovian) and Pennsylvanian / G.D. Sevastopulo -- Variscan deformation and metamorphism / J.R. Graham -- Permian and Mesozoic / M.J. Simms -- Tertiary igneous activity / J. Preston -- Cenozoic : Tertiary and Quaternary (until 11,700 years before 2000) / P. Coxon and S.G. McCarron -- The Holocene / F.J.G. Mitchell -- Geology of offshore Ireland / D. Naylor and P.M. Shannon -- Geophysical evidence onshore / T. Murphy, A.W.B. Jacob, and I.S. Sanders -- A history of Irish Geology / G.L. Herries Davies. This text is written for both academics and people who have no prior knowledge of the earth sciences. It offers a geological history of Ireland from the Precambrian era to the present day. |