Volcanoes and the making of Scotland /
Upton, B. G. J.
Edinburgh : Dunedin Academic,
c2004.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 241) and indexes.
Time on earth and a brief history of Scotland -- Magmas, igneous rocks and volcanic products -- Lava flows and pyroclastic deposits -- Early Cainozoic volcanism and the birth of the North Atlantic -- Early Cainozoic volcanoes: the big ones -- Scotland withing a super-continent: upper carboniferous and permian volcanoes -- Post-caledonian relaxation: the lower carboniferous volcanoes -- Volcanoes in the old red sandstone continent -- Volcanoes and the Iapetus Ocean -- Volcanoes seen through a glass darkly: the earlier Precambian record.
Volcanoes