The Northern Highlands – Landscapes in Stone

Author Alan McKirdy – paperback

Birlinn publisher.

The Rocks of northern scotland tell of turbulent events involving continental collisions that unleashed cataclysmic forces and created a vast chain of mountains, the remnants of which are found today on both sides of the Atlantic. Geologist from Victorian times onwards have studied the area, and some of the most important geological phenomena have been established and described fromt the rocks that build these stunning landscapes.
This book makes sense of the many and varied episoded that shaped the familiar landscapes we wee today.