BRITAIN'S STRUCTURE AND SCENERY. By L. Dudley Stamp. New Naturalist No. 4.

1946 1st edition. 8vo (152 x 222mm). Pxvi,255. Colour and b/w photograph plates, b/w line illustrations, maps, bibliography. Green buckram, spine titled in gilt.

"Our homeland is indeed a geological museum, epitomising in miniature the geological history of the globe. Each hill and valley, each plateau and plain reflects the underlying geological structure or build; this volume attempts not only to describe the surface features, but also to sketch the long and complex series of events which have given the land its present form - the building of the British Isles". Chapters include: Highland Britain and lowland Britain; Reading the rocks; Earth history - time and life; The geological map; Land forms and scenery - the work of rivers; The work of the sea; The scenery of the sedimentary rocks; The scenery of limestone country; The land forms of volcanic country; The scenery of glaciation; Soils; Geographical evolution; The Pliocene period; The Great Ice Age and after; The regions of Britain - the London and Hampshire basins; The Weald; East Anglia and the Fens; The English scarplands; The English Midlands; The South-West; the Welsh massif; The North of England - the Lakes and the Pennines; Scotland; Ireland.