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Emeleus, C.H. and Bell, B.R., with contributions from Stephenson, D. British Regional Geology: the Palaeogene Volcanic Districts of Scotland (Fourth edition).

British Geological Survey, Nottingham. 2005. ISBN: 0-85272-519-1. Price £18.

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This, the latest addition to the ‘new look’ BGS regional handbooks, is the long-awaited replacement for the 3^rd edition of The Tertiary Volcanic Districts(1961). During the intervening period there have been so many advances in petrology, geochemistry, geophysics and geology in general that this edition bears only the most superficial resemblance to it predecessors. Although there has been no systematic resurvey of the Palaeogene volcanic districts by British Geological Survey staff since the 1930s, the pioneering work of such giants of geology as, Alfred Harker, J.E. Richey and their contemporaries prepared the ground for the major expansion of interest on the area after the Second World War. The resulting plethora of PhD theses and scientific papers is reflected in the significantly increased number of references in the 4^th edition, the vast majority of which are from the 1960s onwards. These are now concentrated near the end . . . [Full Text of this Article]