The Isle of Skye offers a magical combination of wild land & breath-taking natural beauty. Skye`s geological history involves some of the most ancient rocks on the planet; a grandstand view as the Highlands of Scotland were formed over 400 million years ago & the development of one of the mightiest volcanoes ever to blow its top. Skye is also known as Scotland`s `dinosaur island`, yielding the remains of many species of plant & meat-eating creatures that stalked land some 140 million years ago. Finally, the rocks forged in earlier times were shaped into the familiar hills & glens of today by the passage of ice as a great freeze gripped the l&. This book provides key information about the formation of the island & the on-going processes of natural landscape evolution that continue to leave their mark on these spectacular vistas.