数量vi, 442 p., [16] p. of plates : ; 26 cm.
寄与者edited by Nigel Woodcock and Rob Strachan.
一般注記Regional geological history : why and how? / N.H. Woodcock and R.A. Strachan -- Geological framework of Britain and Ireland / R.E. Holdsworth, N.H. Woodcock and R.A. Strachan -- Early earth history and development of the Archaean crust / R.A. Strachan, C.D. Storey and A.R. Prave -- Proterozoic sedimentation, orogenesis and magmatism on the Laurentian craton (2500-750 Ma) / R.A. Strachan, R.E. Holdsworth and A.R. Prave -- Middle Neoproterozoic (<750 Ma) to early Ordovician sedimentation along the Laurentian margin of Iapetus / R.A. Strachan, A.R. Prave and R.E. Holdsworth -- The Grampian orogeny : mid-Ordovician arc-continent collision along the Laurentian margin of Iapetus / R.A. Strachan -- Mid-Ordovician to Silurian subduction and collision : closure of the Iapetus Ocean / R.A. Strachan -- Late Neoproterozoic to Cambrian accretionary history of eastern Avalonia and Armorica on the active margin of Gondwana / R.A. Strachan -- The Cambrian and earliest Ordovician quiescent margin of Gondwana / N.H. Woodcock -- Ordovician volcanism and sedimentation on eastern Avalonia / N.H. Woodcock -- Late Ordovician to Silurian evolution of eastern Avalonia during Iapetus closure / N.H. Woodcock -- Early Devonian sedimentary and magmatic interlude after Iapetus closure / N.H. Woodcock -- The Acadian orogeny and its mid-late Devonian depositional aftermath / N.H. Woodcock -- Carboniferous sedimentation and volcanism on the Laurussian margin / S.J. Davies, P.D. Guion and P. Gutteridge -- The Variscan orogeny : the welding of Pangaea / L.N. Warr -- Permian to late Triassic post-orogenic collapse and rifting, arid deserts, evaporating seas and mass extinctions / M.W. Hounslow, T. McKie and A.H. Ruffell -- Triassic-Jurassic boundary and Jurassic : disintegrating Pangaea / S.P. Hesselbo -- Early Cretaceous : rifting and sedimentation before the flood / A.S. Gale -- Late Cretaceous to early Palaeogene pelagic deposits : deposition on greenhouse earth / A.S. Gale -- Palaeogene and Neogene events : the North Atlantic plume and Alpine pulses / A.S. Gale, R. Anderton and R.A. Strachan -- The Quaternary : history of an ice age / P.L. Gibbard and N.H. Woodcock.