This book tells the story of how Scotland's landscape has changed over the last three billion years. Did you know that disappearing oceans, colliding continents and erupting volcanoes were some of the events which helped to shape the countryside we see today? Discover how coal formed from swamps which grew in a tropical climate. Did you know there was an ice age in Scotland that lasted for over two billion years ...and the ice may come back? Find out how to: make your own model volcano which erupts messily ...but safely; see a stalactite and stalagmite grow in just a couple of days; race your way around Scotland, collecting fossils as you go.

 

This book is part of a book series called Scottie Series .

There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published 1999 by NMSE - Publishing Ltd .

Alan McKirdy works for Scottish Natural Heritage. Moira McKirdy is a primary school teacher.

This book has the following chapters: Our rocky past. and present; minerals and crystals; rocks from fire; volcanoes; new rocks from old; creatures from the past; more about fossils; a race through time; drip, drip, drip!; find the fossil; coal; oil and gas; rocks cooked and squashed; Scotland - a piece of North America; wind, water and ice; age of ice; life from rocks?; rocks as work; collecting rocks and conservation; places to visit and answers.