This geological field guide to the Dingle Peninsula includes detailed and richly illustrated descriptions and interpretations of localities where key elements of Dingle geology can be examined.
This is a practical book for both specialists and non-specialists. All chapters contain excellent photos and illustrations to enable the 'mental image' of karstified areas that is needed for effective environmental management.
Explores the uncertain line where myth is dissolved into science, and belief gives way to knowledge. This title offers different episodes that show how a stone falling from the sky near this same coast changed the minds of all the natural philosophers of Europe; and how a new science was born on the top of the tower of York Minster.