Geological History of Britain and Ireland
Britain, Ireland and their surrounding areas have a remarkably varied geology for so small a fragment of continental crust.
This region contains a fine rock record from all the geological periods from Quaternary back to Cambrian, and a less continuous but still impressive catalogue of events back through nearly 2500 million years of Precambrian time. This protracted geological history would have b...
Britain, Ireland and their surrounding areas have a remarkably varied geology for so small a fragment of continental crust.
This region contains a fine rock record from all the geological periods from Quaternary back to Cambrian, and a less continuous but still impressive catalogue of events back through nearly 2500 million years of Precambrian time. This protracted geological history would have b...