Author: Simon K. Haslett

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Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 192

ISBN-13: 9781910244005

Somerset is an old county of southwest England with a rich diversity of landscapes from the high Mendip and Quantock Hills to the flood-prone Somerset Levels and the Bristol Channel coast. The rocks that underlie the county are largely responsible for this diversity with strata from the era of ancient life up to deposits laid down during the last ice age and even more recently.' Somerset Landscapes' is richly illustrated with the authors' own photographs and line diagrams and is intended for the interested layperson as well as school, college and university students following courses in geography, geology and environmental science. History and archaeology also feature. Alongside landscape 'portraits', case studies of general concepts and phenomena are provided, and key words are highlighted and collected together in a glossary for easy reference, and an index has been added to the 2nd Edition. An extensive bibliography, which has been updated also for the 2nd Edition, is given that will enable the reader to take their interest in Somerset further.