Granite and Grit: A Walker’s Guide to the Geology of British MountainsGranite and Grit: A Walker’s Guide to the Geology of British Mountains by TurnbullRonald. 2011. Frances Lincoln Ltd, London. 208 pp. ISBN 978-0-7112-3180-1, £16.99 (pbk).

Abstract

Contents 1. The Crunch of Continents - Various earth-shattering events of the last two billion years: Scotland crashes into England the UK drifts north through tropics the nudge from Africa the opening of the Atlantic. 2. The Work of Ice - Glaciers carved the shapes as we see them today 3. Gneiss Times - The Lewisian Gneiss, in the Outer Hebrides and Wester Ross landscape of knock and lochan a moment in the Malverns 4. The Monsters of Torridon - Sandstone lands of Wester Ross buried landscapes the origin of our oxygen 5. Quartz and Quartzite - Beinn Eighe and the Grey Corries the Moine Thrust 6. Squashed Stones: Slate to Schist - Metamorphism, rocks cooked and crushed shale to slate to schist the Mountains of Moine and the Dalradian schist 7. Greywacke and the Ruggednessof Rhinog - How ocean-bottom sludge became the rock of the Rhinogs 8. Shales and Underwater Mud - More ocean sludge in the Howgills, Isle of Man, mid-Wales and the Southern Uplands the life and times of the graptolite Charles Lapworth in Dobbs Linn 9. All-Terrain Lakeland - Volcanoes and slate, grey shale and granite four different sorts of country but only one Lakeland 10. Red-Hot Flying Avalanche: Ignimbrites in Snowdonia - Various cataclysms above Llyn Idwal 11. Walking the Fault Faults, and a walk along one in particularm the Rossett Gill Fault of Lakeland 12. Andesite and Rhyolite - More volcanoes, at Ben Nevis and Glen Coe collapsing cauldrons 13. Granite Lands - Cairngorms, Dartmoor, Arran, Mourne, Galloway - very different but all of them a bit grim the cause of tors 14. Stone Arriving Sideways: Dolerite Intrusions - The Whin Sill in the north Pennines, Arthur's Seat in Edinburgh and God vs Mr James Hutton 15. The Sands of Time - The Old Red Sandstone of the Brecon Beacons the New Red Sandstone fails to make mountains 16. Mountain Limstone, Millstone Grit - Yorkshire and the Peak District lime to grit to shale: the Yoredale Series 17. The Black Magic of Gabbro - The Tertiary Volcanic Province the Black Cuillin of Skye 18. Basalt Lands and the Opening of the Atlantic - The Death of Gaia Lakeland Lavas, black rocks of Snowdonia, and the Quiraing on Skye a round-up of the red-hot rocks 19. A Two Hundred Million Year Walk Over Dufton Pike - Brekaing the Law of Superposition behind Dufton Pike, with a visit to the Great Whin Sill Conclusion - My country, your country, further reading and more things to see Reading about Rocks Glossary Index Index of Places Acknowledgements