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With the help of numerous maps, diagrams and photographs, most of which are taken from his personal collection, geologist Tony Waltham tells the fascinating story of eastern Yorkshire, explaining just how the landscapes of sandstone uplands, chalk hills and clay vales came to look as they do. Including suggestions for walks and places to visit in order to appreciate the best of the inland and coastal landforms, this accessible and readable boo...

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This is a glorious photographic journey around some of the world's geological delights, from the amazing via the fascinating to the magnificent. It includes over 100 photographs of spectacular geology, each accompanied by a short text that explains the origins or background story.

Sinkholes and Subsidence" provides a twenty-first century account of how the various subsidence features in carbonate and evaporite rocks cause problems in development and construction in our living environment. The authors explain the processes by which different types of sinkholes develop and mature in karst terrains. They consider the various methods used in site investigations, both direct and indirect, to locate the features associated wi...

Written with the general reader - the walker, the lover of the countryside - firmly in mind, this beautifully photographed record opens the door onto a fascinating story of ancient oceans, forests, shallow seas, and ice. Over millions of years, the stunning limestone landscape has been laid down at the bottom of tropical seas, deformed by movements in the earth's crust and shaped giant glaciers and, in our own time, the simple effects of river...

Sinkholes and Subsidence" provides a twenty-first century account of how the various subsidence features in carbonate and evaporite rocks cause problems in development and construction in our living environment. The authors explain the processes by which different types of sinkholes develop and mature in karst terrains. They consider the various methods used in site investigations, both direct and indirect, to locate the features associated wi...

A well-illustrated tour of 26 great caves, worldwide, that includes authoritative descriptions of each cave, its inhabitants, its environment, how it was discovered, access and travel tips on how to get there.