GEOLOGY EXPLAINED IN THE FOREST OF DEAN AND THE WYE VALLEY
Written by William Dreghorn
Illustrated by William Dreghorn
Published by David & Charles
in 1968
ISBN: 0715342630
- Categorised in:
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
- SOUTH WEST UK
- FOREST OF DEAN
- WALES
- WYE VALLEY
- GLOUCESTERSHIRE
- GEOLOGY
GEOLOGY EXPLAINED IN THE FOREST OF DEAN AND THE WYE VALLEY
Written by William Dreghorn.
Illustrated by William Dreghorn.
Stock no. 1830807
1st.
1968.
Hardback.
Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper.
The purpose of this book is to explain geology in terms of scenery in an area which is not only of outstanding scenic beauty but in which can also be found almost every known rock formation in Britain. Blue cloth boards, gilt title to spine. B/w illustrations. 196 pages including index. ISBN: 0715342630. Boards clean. Text block has some foxing, mostly to the top edge. Couple of top corner creases (again, minor). Otherwise contents generally clean. Price-cut pictorial dustwrapper is edge-rubbed, damp stained and grubby.
Front cover
Contents
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 The Geology of the Region
- 2 The Rocks and How They Were Formed
- 3 The Main Structures of the Region
- 4 A Traverse of the Dean Syncline
- 5 The Littledean and Ruspidge Areas
- 6 The Blakeney-Soudley Area
- 7 The Lydney Area and Beachley-Clanna Pericline
- 8 The Hope Mansel Dome and Wigpool Syncline
- 9 The Wye Valley: Ross to Kerne Bridge
- 10 The Symond's Yat Area
- 11 The Wye Valley: Monmouth Area
- 12 The Wye Valley: Monmouth to Tintern Abbey
- 13 The Wye Valley: Tintern to Chepstow
- 14 The Scowles
- 15 The Origin of the Iron Ore
- 16 The Coal Measures: Scenery and Mining
- 17 The Origin of the Coal in the Forest of Dean
- 18 Some Geological Curiosities
- EPILOGUE
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- GLOSSARY OF TERMS USED IN THE TEXT
- APPENDIX: Table or Rock Strata in the Dean Area and Wye Valley
- INDEX