Monthly Archives: February 2015

Geology and landscape are stalwart companions for the Scientific Tourist, and are intimately, inextricably related.  Their beauty and mystery appeal to the scientist as much as to the tourist, but it is only the Scientific Tourist who can appreciate their fascinating interconnectedness. This book explores the hidden landscape of the underlying geology and its all-important influence on the landscape that we can see, human and otherwise.  This geology is also a landscape hidden in geological time.  Hidden by the complex history of the formations themselves as they rose and fell, crashed into and over one another, and oceans and mountain ranges came, went and came again; this is a another landscape stretching back over billions of years, waiting to be … Continue reading →