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This Volcanic Isle The Violent Processes that forged the British Landscape

Muir-Wood Robert
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198871620
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
582 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Muir-Wood Robert

Biografisk notat

Robert Muir-Wood is head of research at the world's largest catastrophe modelling company, RMS, and a visiting professor at UCL's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and since 1995 has worked commercially in catastrophe risk science and modelling. He was lead author on two IPCC reports. Muir-Wood's work primarily focuses on the history of science, seismotectonics, and probability risk assessment. He is the author of several books including The Dark Side of the Earth: the battle for the Earth Sciences 1800-1980 (1985), and The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters (2016).

This Volcanic Isle The Violent Processes that forged the British Landscape

Muir-Wood Robert
Innbundet / 2024 / Engelsk
Muir-Wood Robert
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This Volcanic Isle masterfully unpeels the skin of the British landscape to reveal a torrid and turbulent past. It is land famed for its geological antiquity, and yet in journeying through its last 66 million years it is the enduring youthfulness of tectonic, seismic and volcanic actions that constantly surprises and enthrals. Local places and familiar vistas are interwoven with planetary processes in a beautifully written account of how our appreciation of the natural world around us can be immeasurably enhanced by viewing it through rock-tinted spectacles.

Iain Stewart, Geologist and Broadcaster

Robert Muir-Wood's voyage through the past 66 million years of the making of the British landscape has biblical-level drama on almost every other page... What a geological genesis Britain had! ... I defy anyone to close its covers without their interest in Britain's rocky nature being piqued.

John Lewis-Stempel, Country Life

For the most part, Britain exists in a state of tectonic tranquility ... but it was not always thus, as this entertaining new book makes clear. And the evidence of this green and pleasant land's violent past is all around us - you just need to know where ... to look.

Geordie Torr, Geographical

From the natural geometry of the Giant's Causeway to the sarsen slabs used to build Stonehenge, we are surrounded by evidence for the extraordinary geological forces that shaped the British Isles. Running coast to coast through Devon is 'Sticklepath', Britain's 'San Andreas', a geological fault with the two sides displaced horizontally by several kilometres, all within the recent geological past. The Sticklepath Fault is just one manifestation of the rich tectonic history of the British region since the asteroid collision that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. Raised out of the Chalk Sea, the original Albion was a thickly forested island a thousand kilometres long, surrounded by chalk cliffs, punctuated with great volcanoes, and the site of two trial 'spreading ridge' plate-boundaries. As the volcanoes shifted west, and Greenland separated from Europe, the wind-blown volcanic ash laid the strata on which London was founded. The vertical Needles, known to every Isle of Wight sailor, are part of the northern foothills of the Pyrenees. When the collision subsided, rifting created a garland of Celtic lakes from Brittany to the Outer Hebrides. In This Volcanic Isle Robert Muir-Wood explores the rich geological history of the British Isles, and its resulting legacy. Along the way he introduces the personalities who shared a fascination for Britain's tectonic history, including Charles Darwin the geologist, Tennyson the science-poet, and Benoit Mandelbrot, the pure mathematician who labelled the west coast of Britain a fractal icon. Here is the previously untold story of how earthquakes and eruptions, plumes and plate boundaries, built the British Isles.
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This Volcanic Isle explores the rich geological history of the British Isles over the past 66 million years, since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. From the Isle of Wight needles to the Giant's causeway to the Sticklepath faultline in Devon, this book recounts how earthquakes and eruptions, plumes and plate boundaries, built the British Isles.
Les mer
1: Archi-tectonics 2: The Big Tilt 3: Age of Fire 4: Caught between the Plates 5: Age of Ice 6: Highland Fling 7: The Rocky Road Index
Robert Muir-Wood is head of research at the world's largest catastrophe modelling company, RMS, and a visiting professor at UCL's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and since 1995 has worked commercially in catastrophe risk science and modelling. He was lead author on two IPCC reports. Muir-Wood's work primarily focuses on the history of science, seismotectonics, and probability risk assessment. He is the author of several books including The Dark Side of the Earth: the battle for the Earth Sciences 1800-1980 (1985), and The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters (2016).
Les mer
Recounts the surprisingly violent tectonic prehistory of Britain Explores the ways in which the geological history of the British Isles shaped the land we see today Introduces the personalities who shared a fascination for Britain's tectonic history, including Darwin, Tennyson, and Benoit Mandelbrot Shares a deep love for the geological forces shaping natural history, and relates it to the famous landmarks of the British Isles
Les mer

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This Volcanic Isle masterfully unpeels the skin of the British landscape to reveal a torrid and turbulent past. It is land famed for its geological antiquity, and yet in journeying through its last 66 million years it is the enduring youthfulness of tectonic, seismic and volcanic actions that constantly surprises and enthrals. Local places and familiar vistas are interwoven with planetary processes in a beautifully written account of how our appreciation of the natural world around us can be immeasurably enhanced by viewing it through rock-tinted spectacles.

Iain Stewart, Geologist and Broadcaster

Robert Muir-Wood's voyage through the past 66 million years of the making of the British landscape has biblical-level drama on almost every other page... What a geological genesis Britain had! ... I defy anyone to close its covers without their interest in Britain's rocky nature being piqued.

John Lewis-Stempel, Country Life

For the most part, Britain exists in a state of tectonic tranquility ... but it was not always thus, as this entertaining new book makes clear. And the evidence of this green and pleasant land's violent past is all around us - you just need to know where ... to look.

Geordie Torr, Geographical

From the natural geometry of the Giant's Causeway to the sarsen slabs used to build Stonehenge, we are surrounded by evidence for the extraordinary geological forces that shaped the British Isles. Running coast to coast through Devon is 'Sticklepath', Britain's 'San Andreas', a geological fault with the two sides displaced horizontally by several kilometres, all within the recent geological past. The Sticklepath Fault is just one manifestation of the rich tectonic history of the British region since the asteroid collision that ended the reign of the dinosaurs, 66 million years ago. Raised out of the Chalk Sea, the original Albion was a thickly forested island a thousand kilometres long, surrounded by chalk cliffs, punctuated with great volcanoes, and the site of two trial 'spreading ridge' plate-boundaries. As the volcanoes shifted west, and Greenland separated from Europe, the wind-blown volcanic ash laid the strata on which London was founded. The vertical Needles, known to every Isle of Wight sailor, are part of the northern foothills of the Pyrenees. When the collision subsided, rifting created a garland of Celtic lakes from Brittany to the Outer Hebrides. In This Volcanic Isle Robert Muir-Wood explores the rich geological history of the British Isles, and its resulting legacy. Along the way he introduces the personalities who shared a fascination for Britain's tectonic history, including Charles Darwin the geologist, Tennyson the science-poet, and Benoit Mandelbrot, the pure mathematician who labelled the west coast of Britain a fractal icon. Here is the previously untold story of how earthquakes and eruptions, plumes and plate boundaries, built the British Isles.
Les mer
This Volcanic Isle explores the rich geological history of the British Isles over the past 66 million years, since the disappearance of the dinosaurs. From the Isle of Wight needles to the Giant's causeway to the Sticklepath faultline in Devon, this book recounts how earthquakes and eruptions, plumes and plate boundaries, built the British Isles.
Les mer
1: Archi-tectonics 2: The Big Tilt 3: Age of Fire 4: Caught between the Plates 5: Age of Ice 6: Highland Fling 7: The Rocky Road Index
Robert Muir-Wood is head of research at the world's largest catastrophe modelling company, RMS, and a visiting professor at UCL's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and since 1995 has worked commercially in catastrophe risk science and modelling. He was lead author on two IPCC reports. Muir-Wood's work primarily focuses on the history of science, seismotectonics, and probability risk assessment. He is the author of several books including The Dark Side of the Earth: the battle for the Earth Sciences 1800-1980 (1985), and The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters (2016).
Les mer
Recounts the surprisingly violent tectonic prehistory of Britain Explores the ways in which the geological history of the British Isles shaped the land we see today Introduces the personalities who shared a fascination for Britain's tectonic history, including Darwin, Tennyson, and Benoit Mandelbrot Shares a deep love for the geological forces shaping natural history, and relates it to the famous landmarks of the British Isles
Les mer

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9780198871620
Publisert
2024
Utgiver
Vendor
Oxford University Press
Vekt
582 gr
Høyde
240 mm
Bredde
160 mm
Dybde
32 mm
Aldersnivå
G, 01
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
368

Forfatter
Muir-Wood Robert

Biografisk notat

Robert Muir-Wood is head of research at the world's largest catastrophe modelling company, RMS, and a visiting professor at UCL's Institute for Risk and Disaster Reduction. He was a research fellow at the University of Cambridge, and since 1995 has worked commercially in catastrophe risk science and modelling. He was lead author on two IPCC reports. Muir-Wood's work primarily focuses on the history of science, seismotectonics, and probability risk assessment. He is the author of several books including The Dark Side of the Earth: the battle for the Earth Sciences 1800-1980 (1985), and The Cure for Catastrophe: How We Can Stop Manufacturing Natural Disasters (2016).

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