The land that was to become Scotland has travelled across the globe over the last 3000 million years
- from close to the South Pole to its current position During these travels there were many continental collisions creating mountain belts as high as the present-day Himalayas The Highlands of Scotland were formed in this way Our climate too has changed dramatically over the last 3 billion years from the deep freeze of the Ice Age to scorching heat of the desert & within a relatively short time
- geologically speaking we will plunge back into another ice age In Set in Stone Alan Mc Kirdy traces Scotland's amazing geological journey explaining for the non
- specialist reader why the landscape looks the way it does todays He also explores Scots & those working in Scotland have played a seminal role in the development of the science of geology understanding Earth processes at a local & global scale